Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 218
“He is a wise man,” said she to herself--“It is well; and he dances delightfully--that is also good; but has he solid knowledge?
Who acts: stranger, wise man, kingdom, that · What happens: be, say, dance, have, knowledge · To what, where: wise man · 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 (stranger, wise man, kingdom, that), 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 | _ | 6 man | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 man | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 man | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 5 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 man | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 man | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 herself | nsubj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 herself | case |
| 12 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 said | ccomp |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 well | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 well | punct |
| 15 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 well | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 well | cop |
| 17 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 said | advmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 dances | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 dances | cc |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 dances | nsubj |
| 21 | dances | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | conj |
| 22 | delightfully | delightfully | ADV | _ | 21 dances | advmod |
| 23 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 27 good | punct |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 good | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 good | cop |
| 26 | also | also | ADV | _ | 27 good | advmod |
| 27 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 dances | conj |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 has | punct |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 has | cc |
| 30 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 dances | conj |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 knowledge | nsubj |
| 32 | solid | solid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 knowledge | amod |
| 33 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 has | obj |
| 34 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | stranger | a wise man | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | a wise man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | kingdom | well property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | dance in a quote | present | stranger | delightfully property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | that | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | have in a quote | present | stranger not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | knowledge in a quote | stranger | 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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