Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 241
"Oh yes, certainly; for I fear he will never recover."
Who acts: princess, wedding · What happens: fear, not recover · 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 (princess, wedding), 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 | _ | 9 fear | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 9 fear | discourse |
| 3 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 2 Oh | discourse |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 5 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 2 Oh | advmod |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 fear | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 fear | nsubj |
| 9 | fear | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 recover | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 recover | aux |
| 12 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 13 recover | advmod |
| 13 | recover | recover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 fear | ccomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 fear | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 fear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fear in a quote | present | the princess = princess | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | not recover in a quote | future | wedding | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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