Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 181
“You really look like a shadow!” said his friends to him; and the learned man trembled, for he thought of it.
Who acts: You, friends, learned man, man · What happens: look, say, learn, tremble, think · 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 (You, friends, learned man, man), 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 | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 look | nsubj |
| 3 | really | really | ADV | _ | 4 look | advmod |
| 4 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 shadow | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 shadow | det |
| 7 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 look | obl |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 look | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 look | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 friends | nmod:poss |
| 12 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 friends | nmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 trembled | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 trembled | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 man | det |
| 18 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 man | amod |
| 19 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 trembled | nsubj |
| 20 | trembled | tremble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 thought | punct |
| 22 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 24 thought | mark |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 thought | nsubj |
| 24 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 trembled | advcl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 it | case |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 thought | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look in a quote | present | You | like a shadow | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | man's friends | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | learn | participle | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | tremble | past | the learned man | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | think speech: other | past | man | of friend | vn focus-87.1-1 «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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