Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 199

As the daughter of a king, she needed not to stand upon trifles, so she said, “Your complaint is, that you cannot cast a shadow?”

Who acts: princess, complaint, Your · What happens: need, not stand, say, not be, complain · To what, where: trifles · 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, complaint, Your), 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	As	as	ADP	_	3 daughter	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 daughter	det
3	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 needed	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 king	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 daughter	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 daughter	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 needed	nsubj
9	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 stand	advmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 stand	mark
12	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 needed	xcomp
13	upon	upon	ADP	_	14 trifles	case
14	trifles	trifle	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 stand	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	18 said	advmod
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 said	nsubj
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 needed	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 cast	punct
20	“	"	PUNCT	_	29 cast	punct
21	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 complaint	nmod:poss
22	complaint	complaint	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 cast	nsubj:outer
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 cast	cop
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 cast	punct
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 cast	mark
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 cast	nsubj
27	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 cast	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 cast	advmod
29	cast	cast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 said	ccomp
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 shadow	det
31	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 cast	obj
32	?	?	PUNCT	_	29 cast	punct
33	”	"	PUNCT	_	29 cast	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	need	past	princess		as the daughter of a king	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	not stand not said to happen	to-infinitive	princess not said here	trifles		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon trifle=Location
3	say speech: ask	past	princess			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not is in a quote	can · present	Your complaint		cast property	tree rules
5	complain in a quote		Your			nom complaint «state intransitive»: poss=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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