Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 43

And it certainly did vex him, not so much because the shadow was gone, but because he knew there was a story of a man without a shadow.

Who acts: shadow, music · What happens: vex, be, know · To what, where: music, story · 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, music), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 vex	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 vex	nsubj
3	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	5 vex	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 vex	aux
5	vex	vex	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 vex	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 gone	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 much	advmod
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 much	advmod
10	much	much	ADV	_	15 gone	advmod
11	because	because	SCONJ	_	15 gone	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 shadow	det
13	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 gone	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 gone	cop
15	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 vex	parataxis
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 knew	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 knew	cc
18	because	because	SCONJ	_	20 knew	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 knew	nsubj
20	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 gone	parataxis
21	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	22 was	expl
22	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 knew	ccomp
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 story	det
24	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 knew	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 man	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 man	det
27	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 story	nmod
28	without	without	ADP	_	30 shadow	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 shadow	det
30	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 knew	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 vex	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	vex	past · do-support	shadow	music		certainly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
2	is	past	the shadow			gone property	tree rules
3	know	past	music	a story of a man		without a shadow	tree rules
4	be	past			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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