Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 14

“It is as if some one sat there, and practised a piece that he could not master--always the same piece. '

Who acts: opposite, landlord · What happens: be, practise, not master · To what, where: piece, same piece

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 (opposite, landlord), 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	_	8 sat	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sat	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 sat	cop
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 sat	mark
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 sat	mark
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 one	det
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sat	nsubj
8	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 sat	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 practised	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 practised	cc
12	practised	practise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sat	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 piece	det
14	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 practised	obj
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 master	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 master	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 master	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 master	advmod
19	master	master	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 practised	advcl
20	--	--	PUNCT	_	24 piece	punct
21	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	24 piece	advmod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 piece	det
23	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 piece	amod
24	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 master	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 sat	punct
26	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	opposite		there	sit property	tree rules
2	practise in a quote	past	opposite not said here	a piece			tree rules
3	not master in a quote	could	landlord	the same piece			tree rules

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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