Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures, sentence 91

He declared, when he quite recovered himself, that this had been the most dreadful night he had ever passed; not for a hundred pounds would he go through such feelings again.

Who acts: body, hundred pounds · What happens: declare, recover, pass, go · To what, where: body, this, such feelings

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (body, hundred pounds), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 declared	nsubj
2	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 recovered	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 recovered	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 recovered	nsubj
6	quite	quite	ADV	_	7 recovered	advmod
7	recovered	recover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 declared	conj
8	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 recovered	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 passed	punct
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 passed	mark
11	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 passed	nsubj:pass
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 passed	aux
13	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 passed	aux:pass
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 night	det
15	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	16 dreadful	advmod
16	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 night	amod
17	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 passed	obl:unmarked
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 passed	nsubj:pass
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 passed	aux
20	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	21 passed	advmod
21	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 recovered	advcl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 go	punct
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 pounds	advmod
24	for	for	ADP	_	27 pounds	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 hundred	det
26	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 pounds	nummod
27	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 go	nsubj
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 go	aux
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 go	nsubj
30	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 declared	conj
31	through	through	ADP	_	33 feelings	case
32	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 feelings	amod
33	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 go	obl
34	again	again	ADV	_	30 go	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 declared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	declare speech: other	past	body				vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	recover	past	body	body			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
3	pass	past · perfect · passive		this		ever; night	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory
4	go	would	hundred pounds		such feelings	again	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through feeling=Initial_Location

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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