Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 188
Now the learned man didn't think much about that; he was a very kind-hearted man, and particularly mild and friendly, and so he said one day to the shadow: “As we have now become companions, and in this way have grown up together from childhood, shall we not drink 'thou' together, it is more familiar?”
Who acts: learned man, man, we, sun · What happens: learn, not think, be, say, become, grow up · To what, where: hearted man, companions, way, thou · 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 (learned man, man, we, 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 think | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 think | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 think | aux |
| 6 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 think | advmod |
| 7 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | much | much | ADV | _ | 7 think | advmod |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 10 that | case |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 much | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 man | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 man | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 man | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 man | det |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 hearted | advmod |
| 16 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 hearted | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 kind | punct |
| 18 | hearted | hearted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 man | amod |
| 19 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 think | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 mild | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 mild | cc |
| 22 | particularly | particularly | ADV | _ | 23 mild | advmod |
| 23 | mild | mild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 man | acl:relcl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 friendly | cc |
| 25 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 mild | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 said | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 said | cc |
| 28 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 said | advmod |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 said | nsubj |
| 30 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 mild | conj |
| 31 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 day | nummod |
| 32 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 said | obl:unmarked |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 shadow | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 shadow | det |
| 35 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 day | nmod |
| 36 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 59 drink | punct |
| 37 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 59 drink | punct |
| 38 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 42 become | mark |
| 39 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 42 become | nsubj |
| 40 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 become | aux |
| 41 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 42 become | advmod |
| 42 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 59 drink | advcl |
| 43 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 become | xcomp |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 grown | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 grown | cc |
| 46 | in | in | ADP | _ | 48 way | case |
| 47 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 48 way | det |
| 48 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 grown | obl |
| 49 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 50 grown | aux |
| 50 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 42 become | conj |
| 51 | up | up | ADP | _ | 50 grown | compound:prt |
| 52 | together | together | ADV | _ | 50 grown | advmod |
| 53 | from | from | ADP | _ | 54 childhood | case |
| 54 | childhood | childhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 grown | obl |
| 55 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 become | punct |
| 56 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 59 drink | aux |
| 57 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 59 drink | nsubj |
| 58 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 59 drink | advmod |
| 59 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 think | parataxis |
| 60 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 61 thou | punct |
| 61 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 59 drink | obj |
| 62 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 61 thou | punct |
| 63 | together | together | ADV | _ | 59 drink | advmod |
| 64 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 68 familiar | punct |
| 65 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 68 familiar | nsubj |
| 66 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 68 familiar | cop |
| 67 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 68 familiar | advmod |
| 68 | familiar | familiar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 59 drink | conj |
| 69 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 think | punct |
| 70 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | participle | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | not think speech: other | past · do-support | the learned man | now | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | man | a hearted man | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | man | day | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | become in a quote | present · perfect | we | companions | now | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 6 | grow up in a quote | present · perfect | we not said here | this way | from childhood; together property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in way=Location | |||
| 7 | not drink in a quote | shall | we | thou | together property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Patient | |||
| 8 | is in a quote | present | sun | familiar 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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