Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 120
Master and mistress say thou to their servants the superior to the inferior.
Who acts: Master · What happens: say · To what, where: thou, servants · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Master), 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 | Master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 say | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 mistress | cc |
| 3 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Master | conj |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 say | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 servants | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 servants | nmod:poss |
| 8 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 say | obl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 superior | det |
| 10 | superior | superior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 servants | appos |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 inferior | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 inferior | det |
| 13 | inferior | inferior | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 superior | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Master and mistress | thou | brothers's servants | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent thou=Topic to servant=Recipient |
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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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