Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 64
"I cannot recover from my astonishment," said the learned man. "
Who acts: learned man, my · What happens: not recover, say, learn, astonish · To what, where: astonishment · 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 (learned man, my), 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 | _ | 5 recover | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 recover | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 recover | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 recover | advmod |
| 5 | recover | recover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 astonishment | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 astonishment | nmod:poss |
| 8 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 recover | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 recover | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 recover | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 13 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 man | amod |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not recover in a quote | can | the learned man = man | my astonishment | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from astonishment=Source | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the learned man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | learn | participle | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | astonish in a quote | my | nom astonishment «feeling 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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