Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 73
Well, this is most remarkable; I never supposed it possible that a man's old shadow could become a human being."
Who acts: this, I, old shadow, man · What happens: be, not suppose, become, shadow · To what, where: goodness
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, I, old shadow, man), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 6 remarkable | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 remarkable | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 remarkable | cop |
| 5 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 6 remarkable | advmod |
| 6 | remarkable | remarkable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 supposed | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 supposed | nsubj |
| 9 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 10 supposed | advmod |
| 10 | supposed | suppose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 remarkable | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 supposed | obj |
| 12 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 supposed | xcomp |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 become | mark |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 shadow | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 man | case |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 shadow | amod |
| 18 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 become | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 become | aux |
| 20 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 supposed | advcl |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 being | det |
| 22 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 being | amod |
| 23 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 become | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 remarkable | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 remarkable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | this | remarkable property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not suppose | past | I | goodness | possible property | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Attribute | |||
| 3 | become | could | a man's old shadow | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | shadow | a 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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