Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 15

I shall master it!' says he; but yet he cannot master it, however long he plays.”

Who acts: I, landlord · What happens: master, say, not master, play · To what, where: opposite, landlord · 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, 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 master	nsubj
2	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 master	aux
3	master	master	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 master	obj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct
7	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 master	advcl
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 says	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 master	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 master	cc
11	yet	yet	ADV	_	15 master	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 master	nsubj
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 master	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 master	advmod
15	master	master	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 master	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 master	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 long	punct
18	however	however	ADV	_	19 long	advmod
19	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 master	advmod
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 plays	nsubj
21	plays	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 long	advcl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 master	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 master	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	master	shall	I	opposite			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	I not said here	landlord			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Topic
3	not master	can	landlord	opposite	yet	long property	tree rules
4	play	present	landlord				vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: 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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