Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 187

And so they travelled; the shadow was master, and the master was the shadow; they drove with each other, they rode and walked together, side by side, before and behind, just as the sun was; the shadow always took care to keep itself in the master's place.

Who acts: comrades, shadow, master, sun · What happens: travel, be, drive, ride, walk, take · To what, where: shadow, side, care, place

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 (comrades, shadow, master, sun), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 travelled	cc
2	so	so	ADV	_	4 travelled	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 travelled	nsubj
4	travelled	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 master	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 shadow	det
7	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 master	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 master	cop
9	master	master	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 travelled	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 shadow	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 shadow	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 master	det
13	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 shadow	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 shadow	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 shadow	det
16	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 master	parataxis
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 drove	punct
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 drove	nsubj
19	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 travelled	conj
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 each	case
21	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	19 drove	obl
22	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 each	fixed
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 rode	punct
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 rode	nsubj
25	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 travelled	conj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 walked	cc
27	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 rode	conj
28	together	together	ADV	_	27 walked	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 side	punct
30	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 rode	obl
31	by	by	ADP	_	32 side	case
32	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 rode	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 before	punct
34	before	before	ADV	_	4 travelled	advmod
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 behind	cc
36	behind	behind	ADV	_	34 before	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 was	punct
38	just	just	ADV	_	42 was	advmod
39	as	as	SCONJ	_	42 was	mark
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 sun	det
41	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 was	nsubj
42	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 travelled	conj
43	;	;	PUNCT	_	47 took	punct
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 shadow	det
45	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 took	nsubj
46	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	47 took	advmod
47	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 travelled	conj
48	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 took	obj
49	to	to	PART	_	50 keep	mark
50	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 took	advcl
51	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	50 keep	obj
52	in	in	ADP	_	56 place	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 master	det
54	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 place	nmod:poss
55	's	's	PART	_	54 master	case
56	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 keep	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 travelled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	travel	past	comrades = comrade			before property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	the shadow			master property	tree rules
3	is a	past	the master	the shadow			tree rules
4	drive	past	comrades = comrade			with each	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
5	ride	past	comrades = comrade	side		by side	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
6	walk	past	comrades = comrade not said here			together property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	be	past	the sun				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	take	past	the shadow	care		always property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
9	keep	to-infinitive	the shadow not said here	care	the master's place		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent itself=Theme in place=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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