Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 5

This learned man from the cold regions was young as well as clever; but it seemed to him as if he were sitting in an oven, and he became quite exhausted and weak, and grew so thin that his shadow shrivelled up, and became much smaller than it had been at home.

Who acts: This, man, it, shadow · What happens: learn, be, seem, sit, become, exhaust · To what, where: man, oven · 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 (This, man, it, shadow), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 learned	nsubj
2	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 young	nsubj
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 regions	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 regions	det
6	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 regions	amod
7	regions	region	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 man	nmod
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 young	cop
9	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 learned	ccomp
10	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	13 clever	cc
11	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 as	fixed
12	as	as	ADP	_	10 as	fixed
13	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 young	conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 seemed	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 seemed	cc
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 seemed	nsubj
17	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 learned	parataxis
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 seemed	obl
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 sitting	mark
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 sitting	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 sitting	nsubj
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 sitting	aux
24	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 seemed	xcomp
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 oven	case
26	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 oven	det
27	oven	oven	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sitting	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 became	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 became	cc
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 became	nsubj
31	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 learned	conj
32	quite	quite	ADV	_	33 exhausted	advmod
33	exhausted	exhaust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 became	xcomp
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 weak	cc
35	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 exhausted	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 grew	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 grew	cc
38	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 learned	parataxis
39	so	so	ADV	_	40 thin	advmod
40	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 grew	xcomp
41	that	that	SCONJ	_	44 shrivelled	mark
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 shadow	nmod:poss
43	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 shrivelled	nsubj
44	shrivelled	shrivell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 thin	advcl
45	up	up	ADP	_	44 shrivelled	compound:prt
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 became	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 became	cc
48	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 grew	conj
49	much	much	ADV	_	50 smaller	advmod
50	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	48 became	xcomp
51	than	than	ADP	_	56 home	case
52	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 home	nsubj
53	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 home	aux
54	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	56 home	cop
55	at	at	ADP	_	56 home	case
56	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 smaller	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 learned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	learn	past	This				vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	man from the cold regions			young property	tree rules
3	be		man from the cold regions not said here				tree rules
4	seem	past	it	man			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
5	sit a condition, not said to happen	past · progressive	man		a oven		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in oven=Location
6	become	past	man				tree rules
7	exhaust	participle	man not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
8	grow	past				thin property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	shrivell up	past	man's shadow				tree rules
10	become	past				small property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
11	is	past · perfect	shadow			than home	tree rules
12	shadow		man				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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