Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 138

I might have been in a very disagreeable position."

Who acts: I · What happens: be · To what, where: disagreeable position

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Toad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 position	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 position	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 position	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 position	cop
5	in	in	ADP	_	9 position	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 position	det
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 disagreeable	advmod
8	disagreeable	disagreeable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 position	amod
9	position	position	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 position	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 position	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	might · perfect	I			a disagreeable position			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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