Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 57
"Ah, I hoped you would recognize me," said the elegant stranger; "I have gained so much that I have a body of flesh, and clothes to wear.
Who acts: elegant stranger, you · What happens: hope, recognize, say, gain, have, wear · To what, where: elegant stranger, clothes, body · 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 (elegant stranger, you), 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 | _ | 8 recognize | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 5 hoped | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 hoped | nsubj |
| 5 | hoped | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 recognize | advcl |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 recognize | nsubj |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 recognize | aux |
| 8 | recognize | recognize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 recognize | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 recognize | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 recognize | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 stranger | det |
| 14 | elegant | elegant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 stranger | amod |
| 15 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 gained | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 gained | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 gained | nsubj |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 gained | aux |
| 20 | gained | gain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 said | parataxis |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 much | advmod |
| 22 | much | much | ADV | _ | 20 gained | advmod |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 have | mark |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 have | nsubj |
| 25 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 gained | advcl |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 body | det |
| 27 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 have | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 flesh | case |
| 29 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 body | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 clothes | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 clothes | cc |
| 32 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 12 said | obl |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 wear | mark |
| 34 | wear | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 clothes | acl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hope in a quote | past | the elegant stranger = stranger | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | recognize in a quote | would | you | the elegant stranger = stranger | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the elegant stranger | clothes | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | gain in a quote | present · perfect | the elegant stranger = stranger | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | have in a quote | present | the elegant stranger = stranger | a body of flesh | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Patient | ||||
| 6 | wear in a quote | to-infinitive | the elegant stranger not said here | clothes not said here | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: 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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