Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 197

She directly observed that the stranger who had just come was quite a different sort of person to all the others; “He has come here in order to get his beard to grow, they say, but I see the real cause, he cannot cast a shadow.”

Who acts: princess, stranger, beard, grief · What happens: observe, come, be, get, grow, say · To what, where: different sort, order, beard, real cause, shadow · 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 (princess, stranger, beard, grief), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 observed	nsubj
2	directly	directly	ADV	_	3 observed	advmod
3	observed	observe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 sort	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stranger	det
6	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sort	nsubj
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 come	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 come	aux
9	just	just	ADV	_	10 come	advmod
10	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 stranger	acl:relcl
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 sort	cop
12	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	15 sort	det:predet
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 sort	det
14	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 sort	amod
15	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 observed	ccomp
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 person	case
17	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sort	nmod
18	to	to	ADP	_	21 others	case
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 others	det:predet
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 others	det
21	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 person	nmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 come	punct
23	“	"	PUNCT	_	26 come	punct
24	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 come	nsubj
25	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 come	aux
26	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 observed	conj
27	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 come	advmod
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 order	case
29	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 come	obl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 get	mark
31	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 come	advcl
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 beard	nmod:poss
33	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 get	obj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 grow	mark
35	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 get	xcomp
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 say	punct
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 say	nsubj
38	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 observed	parataxis
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 see	punct
40	but	but	CCONJ	_	42 see	cc
41	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 see	nsubj
42	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 cast	advcl
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 cause	det
44	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 cause	amod
45	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 see	obj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 see	punct
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 cast	nsubj
48	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 cast	aux
49	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	50 cast	advmod
50	cast	cast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 say	ccomp
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 shadow	det
52	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 cast	obj
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 observed	punct
54	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 observed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	observe	past	princess			directly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come	past · perfect	the stranger				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	past	the stranger	quite different sort		of person to all others	tree rules
4	come in a quote	present · perfect	stranger		order; here		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in order=Location
5	get in a quote	to-infinitive	stranger not said here	stranger's beard			tree rules
6	grow in a quote	to-infinitive	stranger's beard not said here				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	say speech: assert in a quote	present	grief				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	see in a quote	present	grief	the real cause			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cause=Stimulus
9	not cast in a quote	can	stranger	a shadow			vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shadow=Product

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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