Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jewish Maiden, sentence 49

It seemed to me so sure that I took poison, which I secretly carried about me; and in a few hours its effects will destroy me.

Who acts: It, I, effects, poison · What happens: seem, take, carry, destroy, effect · To what, where: me, poison

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Jewish Maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, I, effects, poison), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 seemed	nsubj
2	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 me	case
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 seemed	obl
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 sure	advmod
6	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 seemed	xcomp
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 took	mark
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 took	nsubj
9	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sure	ccomp
10	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 took	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 carried	punct
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 carried	obj
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 carried	nsubj
14	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	15 carried	advmod
15	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 poison	conj
16	about	about	ADP	_	17 me	case
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 carried	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 destroy	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 destroy	cc
20	in	in	ADP	_	23 hours	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 hours	det
22	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 hours	amod
23	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 destroy	obl
24	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 effects	nmod:poss
25	effects	effect	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 destroy	nsubj
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 destroy	aux
27	destroy	destroy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 seemed	parataxis
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 destroy	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	seem	past	It		me		sure property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	take	past	I	poison				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poison=Theme
3	carry	past	I	poison			about me; secretly property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme
4	destroy	future	poison's effects	me		hour		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
5	effect		poison					nom effect «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent

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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