Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 137
“I tell you I was there, and you can conceive that I saw everything there was to be seen.
Who acts: I, you · What happens: tell, be, conceive, see · To what, where: you, everything · 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 (I, you), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 tell | nsubj |
| 3 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 tell | iobj |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 there | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 there | cop |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 tell | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 conceive | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 conceive | cc |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 conceive | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 conceive | aux |
| 12 | conceive | conceive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 tell | conj |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 saw | mark |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 saw | nsubj |
| 15 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 conceive | advcl |
| 16 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 15 saw | obj |
| 17 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 was | expl |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 everything | acl:relcl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 seen | mark |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 seen | aux:pass |
| 21 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 was | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | present | I | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | past | I | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | conceive in a quote | can | you | vn characterize-29.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | see in a quote | past | I | everything | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | see in a quote | to-infinitive · passive | I not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» |
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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