Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 239

"I have gone through the most terrible affair that could possibly happen," said the shadow; "only imagine, my shadow has gone mad; I suppose such a poor, shallow brain, could not bear much; he fancies that he has become a real man, and that I am his shadow."

Who acts: shadow, terrible affair, wedding, my · What happens: go, happen, say, imagine, suppose, not bear · To what, where: terrible affair, real man, shadow · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shadow, terrible affair, wedding, my), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 gone	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	aux
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 said	ccomp
5	through	through	ADP	_	9 affair	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 affair	det
7	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	8 terrible	advmod
8	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 affair	amod
9	affair	affair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gone	obl
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 happen	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 happen	aux
12	possibly	possibly	ADV	_	13 happen	advmod
13	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 affair	acl:relcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 shadow	det
18	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 imagine	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 imagine	punct
21	only	only	ADV	_	22 imagine	advmod
22	imagine	imagine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 gone	punct
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 shadow	nmod:poss
25	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 gone	nsubj
26	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 gone	aux
27	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 imagine	parataxis
28	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 gone	xcomp
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 suppose	punct
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 suppose	nsubj
31	suppose	suppose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 said	ccomp
32	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	37 brain	det:predet
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 brain	det
34	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 brain	amod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 poor	punct
36	shallow	shallow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 brain	amod
37	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 suppose	ccomp
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 bear	punct
39	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 bear	aux
40	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	41 bear	advmod
41	bear	bear	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	37 brain	parataxis
42	much	much	ADV	_	41 bear	advmod
43	;	;	PUNCT	_	45 fancies	punct
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 fancies	nsubj
45	fancies	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 suppose	conj
46	that	that	SCONJ	_	49 become	mark
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 become	nsubj
48	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	49 become	aux
49	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	45 fancies	ccomp
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 man	det
51	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 man	amod
52	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 become	xcomp
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 shadow	punct
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 shadow	cc
55	that	that	SCONJ	_	59 shadow	mark
56	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	59 shadow	nsubj
57	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	59 shadow	cop
58	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	59 shadow	nmod:poss
59	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	parataxis
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	59 shadow	punct
61	"	"	PUNCT	_	59 shadow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	present · perfect	the shadow = shadow		the terrible affair		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through affair=Initial_Location
2	happen in a quote	could	the terrible affair			possibly property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	the shadow				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	imagine in a quote	infinitive	the shadow not said here				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5	go in a quote	present · perfect	my shadow			mad property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	suppose in a quote	present	the shadow = shadow				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
7	not bear in a quote	could					vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
8	fancy in a quote	present	wedding				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
9	become in a quote	present · perfect	wedding	a real man			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
10	is a in a quote	present	the shadow = shadow	wedding's shadow			tree rules
11	shadow in a quote		my				nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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