Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Silver Shilling, sentence 35
As for me, innocent as I was, I could not help shuddering before their eyes whenever they brought me out, for I knew I should be thrown back again up the table as a false pretender.
Who acts: I, deeds · What happens: be, not help, shudder, bring out, know, throw back · To what, where: me, I · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Silver Shilling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, deeds), 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 | As | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 3 me | case |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 innocent | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 innocent | punct |
| 5 | innocent | innocent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 was | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 was | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 innocent | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 help | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 help | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 help | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 help | advmod |
| 13 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 innocent | conj |
| 14 | shuddering | shudder | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 help | xcomp |
| 15 | before | before | ADP | _ | 17 eyes | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 17 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 shuddering | obl |
| 18 | whenever | whenever | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 brought | advmod |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 brought | nsubj |
| 20 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 shuddering | advcl |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 brought | obj |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 brought | compound:prt |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 knew | punct |
| 24 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 26 knew | mark |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 knew | nsubj |
| 26 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 help | parataxis |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 thrown | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 thrown | aux |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 thrown | aux:pass |
| 30 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 knew | ccomp |
| 31 | back | back | ADV | _ | 32 again | advmod |
| 32 | again | again | ADV | _ | 30 thrown | advmod |
| 33 | up | up | ADP | _ | 35 table | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 table | det |
| 35 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 thrown | obl |
| 36 | as | as | ADP | _ | 39 pretender | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 pretender | det |
| 38 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 pretender | amod |
| 39 | pretender | pretender | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 thrown | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 innocent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | I | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not help | could | I | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | shudder not said to happen | gerund | I not said here | before deeds's eyes | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | bring out | past | deeds = deed | me | whenever property | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent i=Patient | |||
| 5 | know | past | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | throw back | should · passive | I | again | up the table; as a false pretender | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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