Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Silver Shilling, sentence 42

"'Ah!' sighed I to myself, 'am I also to be a burden on the conscience of this poor woman?

Who acts: woman · What happens: sigh, be · To what, where: woman, burden, conscience

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 (woman), 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	_	6 sighed	punct
2	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 Ah	punct
3	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	6 sighed	discourse
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 Ah	punct
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 Ah	punct
6	sighed	sigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 sighed	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 myself	case
9	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 sighed	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 burden	punct
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	18 burden	punct
12	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 burden	cop
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 burden	nsubj
14	also	also	ADV	_	18 burden	advmod
15	to	to	PART	_	18 burden	mark
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 burden	cop
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 burden	det
18	burden	burden	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sighed	obl
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 conscience	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 conscience	det
21	conscience	conscience	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 burden	nmod
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 woman	case
23	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 woman	det
24	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 woman	amod
25	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 conscience	nmod
26	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 sighed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sigh in a quote	past		woman	woman				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Topic to myself=Recipient
2	is a in a quote	present	woman	a burden		the conscience of this poor woman			tree rules

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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