Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 121

But servants and inferiors do not use the same term to their masters, or superiors--nor is it ever used when speaking to a stranger, or anyone with whom they are but slightly acquainted--they then say as in English--you.

Who acts: servants, superior · What happens: not use, be, speak, acquaint, say · To what, where: same term, anyone, 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 (servants, superior), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 use	cc
2	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 use	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 inferiors	cc
4	inferiors	inferior	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 servants	conj
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 use	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 use	advmod
7	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 term	det
9	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 term	amod
10	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 use	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 masters	case
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 masters	nmod:poss
13	masters	master	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 use	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 superiors	punct
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 superiors	cc
16	superiors	superior	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 masters	conj
17	--	--	PUNCT	_	22 used	punct
18	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	22 used	cc
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 used	cop
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 used	nsubj
21	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	22 used	advmod
22	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 use	parataxis
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 speaking	advmod
24	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 used	advcl
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 stranger	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 stranger	det
27	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 speaking	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 anyone	punct
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	30 anyone	cc
30	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	24 speaking	obl
31	with	with	ADP	_	32 whom	case
32	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 anyone	nmod
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 acquainted	nsubj
34	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 acquainted	aux:pass
35	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 acquainted	cc
36	slightly	slightly	ADV	_	37 acquainted	advmod
37	acquainted	acquaint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 whom	acl:relcl
38	--	--	PUNCT	_	41 say	punct
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 say	nsubj
40	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	41 say	advmod
41	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 use	parataxis
42	as	as	ADP	_	44 English	case
43	in	in	ADP	_	44 English	case
44	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 say	obl
45	--	--	PUNCT	_	46 you	punct
46	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	44 English	appos
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 use	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not use	present · do-support	servants and inferiors	the same term		to servants's masters or superiors	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent term=Patient
2	is	present	superior		ever	use property	tree rules
3	speak speech: other	gerund	superior not said here	anyone		to a stranger	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to stranger=Co-Agent
4	acquaint speech: other	present · passive		servants = servant		slightly property	vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
5	say speech: assert	present	servants = servant		then	as English	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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: «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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