Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 44

Suppose I were to go back now and say how ill I feel, I fear it would look so ridiculous, and it is not very likely that I should find any one up."

Who acts: you, I, glass · What happens: suppose, go back, say, be, fear, look · To what, where: one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, glass), 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	Suppose	suppose	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 go	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 go	aux
4	to	to	PART	_	5 go	mark
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Suppose	ccomp
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 go	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 say	cc
9	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 go	conj
10	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 ill	advmod
11	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 say	ccomp
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 feel	nsubj
13	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 ill	cop
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 fear	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 fear	nsubj
16	fear	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Suppose	parataxis
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 look	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 look	aux
19	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 fear	ccomp
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 ridiculous	advmod
21	ridiculous	ridiculous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 look	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 likely	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 likely	cc
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 likely	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 likely	cop
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 likely	advmod
27	very	very	ADV	_	28 likely	advmod
28	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Suppose	parataxis
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 find	mark
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 find	nsubj
31	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 find	aux
32	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 likely	xcomp
33	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	34 one	det
34	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 find	obj
35	up	up	ADP	_	32 find	compound:prt
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Suppose	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Suppose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	suppose	imperative	you not said here				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	go back	past	I		now		vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
3	say speech: assert	infinitive	I not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is	present				ill property	tree rules
5	fear	present	I				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	look	would	glass			ridiculous property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
7	not is	present	glass			likely property	tree rules
8	find up	should	I	any one			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic

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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