Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 60
Ah, you never expected that I should return to you again.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: not expect, return · To what, where: you
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 (you, I), 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 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 5 expected | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ah | punct |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 expected | nsubj |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 expected | advmod |
| 5 | expected | expect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 return | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 return | nsubj |
| 8 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 return | aux |
| 9 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 expected | xcomp |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 you | case |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 return | obl |
| 12 | again | again | ADV | _ | 9 return | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 expected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not expect | past | you | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | return not said to happen | should | I | you | again | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to you=Result |
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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