Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 224
“I really believe my shadow, by the door there, can answer them!”
Who acts: shadow, my · What happens: believe, answer, shadow · To what, where: shadow, questions
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 (shadow, my), 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 | _ | 14 answer | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 believe | nsubj |
| 3 | really | really | ADV | _ | 4 believe | advmod |
| 4 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 answer | parataxis |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 shadow | nmod:poss |
| 6 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 believe | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 door | punct |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 door | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 door | det |
| 10 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 believe | conj |
| 11 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 door | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 believe | punct |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 answer | aux |
| 14 | answer | answer | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 answer | obj |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 answer | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 answer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe in a quote | present | the shadow = shadow | my shadow | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shadow=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert in a quote | can | questions = question | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | shadow in a quote | my | nom shadow «state transitive»: 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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