Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 189
“You are right,” said the shadow, who was now the proper master.
Who acts: You, shadow · What happens: be, say · To what, where: proper master · 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, shadow), 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 | _ | 4 right | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 right | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 right | cop |
| 4 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 right | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 right | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 shadow | det |
| 9 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 master | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 master | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 master | cop |
| 13 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 master | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 master | det |
| 15 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 master | amod |
| 16 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shadow | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | You | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the shadow and the proper master | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | the shadow and the proper master | the proper master | now | 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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