Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 203
Other persons have a common shadow, but I do not like what is common to all.
Who acts: Other persons, I · What happens: have, not like, be · To what, where: common 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 (Other persons, 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 | Other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 persons | amod |
| 2 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 shadow | det |
| 5 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 shadow | amod |
| 6 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 like | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 like | cc |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 like | nsubj |
| 10 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 like | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 like | advmod |
| 12 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 have | parataxis |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 common | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 common | cop |
| 15 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 like | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 all | case |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 common | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Other persons | a common shadow | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shadow=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not like | present · do-support | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | is | present | to all; common 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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