Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 17

In general, it means the reddish-brown wood itself; but in jest, it signifies “excessively fine,” which arose from an anecdote of Nyboder, in Copenhagen, (the seamen's quarter.)

Who acts: mahogany · What happens: mean, signify, arise · To what, where: brown wood, anecdote

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 (mahogany), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 general	case
2	general	general	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 means	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 general	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 means	nsubj
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wood	det
7	reddish	reddish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 brown	amod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 reddish	punct
9	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 wood	amod
10	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 means	obj
11	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	10 wood	nmod:unmarked
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 signifies	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 signifies	cc
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 jest	case
15	jest	jest	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 signifies	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 jest	punct
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 signifies	nsubj
18	signifies	signify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 means	conj
19	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 fine	punct
20	excessively	excessively	ADV	_	21 fine	advmod
21	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 signifies	ccomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 fine	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	21 fine	punct
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 arose	nsubj
25	arose	arise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 fine	parataxis
26	from	from	ADP	_	28 anecdote	case
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 anecdote	det
28	anecdote	anecdote	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 arose	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 Nyboder	case
30	Nyboder	Nyboder	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 anecdote	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 Copenhagen	punct
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 Copenhagen	case
33	Copenhagen	Copenhagen	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 arose	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 quarter	punct
35	(	(	PUNCT	_	39 quarter	punct
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 seamen	det
37	seamen	seaman	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 quarter	nmod:poss
38	's	's	PART	_	37 seamen	case
39	quarter	quarter	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 Copenhagen	appos
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct
41	)	)	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	mean	present	mahogany	the brown wood mahogany		in general	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot wood=Theme in general=Attribute
2	signify	present	mahogany			in jest	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in jest=Attribute
3	arise	past			a anecdote of Nyboder	in Copenhagen	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in copenhagen=Location

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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