Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 153

The professors made a professor of me; the tailors gave me new clothes--I am well furnished; the master of the mint struck new coin for me, and the women said I was so handsome!

Who acts: professors, tailors, master, women, I · What happens: make, give, furnish, strike, say, be · To what, where: professor, new clothes, me, I, new coin · 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 (professors, tailors, master, women), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 professors	det
2	professors	professor	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 professor	det
5	professor	professor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 me	case
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 professor	nmod
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 gave	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 tailors	det
10	tailors	tailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 gave	nsubj
11	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	parataxis
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 gave	iobj
13	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 clothes	amod
14	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	11 gave	obj
15	--	--	PUNCT	_	19 furnished	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 furnished	nsubj
17	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 furnished	aux:pass
18	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 furnished	advmod
19	furnished	furnish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 gave	conj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 struck	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 master	det
22	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 struck	nsubj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 mint	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 mint	det
25	mint	mint	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 master	nmod
26	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	parataxis
27	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 coin	amod
28	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 struck	obj
29	for	for	ADP	_	30 me	case
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 struck	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 said	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 said	cc
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 women	det
34	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 said	nsubj
35	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 struck	conj
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 handsome	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 handsome	cop
38	so	so	ADV	_	39 handsome	advmod
39	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 said	ccomp
40	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	make	past	the professors	a professor of me			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent professor=Product
2	give	past	the tailors	new clothes	me		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clothes=Theme
3	furnish	present · passive		I		well property	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient
4	strike	past	the master of the mint	new coin		for me	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coin=Patient
5	say speech: assert	past	the women				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	is	past	I			handsome property	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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