Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 223
“They belong to my childhood's learning,” said the shadow.
Who acts: questions, shadow · What happens: belong, say · 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 (questions, shadow), 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 | _ | 3 belong | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 belong | nsubj |
| 3 | belong | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 learning | case |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 childhood | nmod:poss |
| 6 | childhood | childhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 learning | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 childhood | case |
| 8 | learning | learning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 belong | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 belong | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 belong | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 shadow | det |
| 13 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | belong in a quote | present | questions = question | to my childhood's learning | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the shadow | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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