Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 201
I just happen to have a very unusual shadow!
Who acts: I · What happens: happen, have · To what, where: unusual shadow
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 happen | nsubj |
| 2 | just | just | ADV | _ | 3 happen | advmod |
| 3 | happen | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 have | mark |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 happen | xcomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 shadow | det |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 unusual | advmod |
| 8 | unusual | unusual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 shadow | amod |
| 9 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 have | obj |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 happen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | have | to-infinitive | I not said here | a unusual shadow | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shadow=Patient |
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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