Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 231

So she went to the learned man by the door, and she spoke to him about the sun and the moon, and about persons out of and in the world, and he answered with wisdom and prudence.

Who acts: princess, person · What happens: go, learn, speak, answer · To what, where: 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 (princess, person), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 man	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 door	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 door	det
10	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 spoke	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 spoke	cc
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 spoke	nsubj
14	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 spoke	obl
17	about	about	ADP	_	19 sun	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 sun	det
19	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 spoke	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 moon	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 moon	det
22	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sun	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 persons	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 persons	cc
25	about	about	ADP	_	26 persons	case
26	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 went	obl
27	out	out	ADP	_	26 persons	advmod
28	of	of	ADP	_	27 out	fixed
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 world	cc
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 world	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 world	det
32	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 persons	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 answered	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 answered	cc
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 answered	nsubj
36	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	parataxis
37	with	with	ADP	_	38 wisdom	case
38	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 answered	obl
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 prudence	cc
40	prudence	prudence	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 wisdom	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	go	past	princess		to the learned man; by the door; about persons and the world	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to man=Initial_Location
2	learn	participle				vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	speak speech: other	past	princess	man	about the sun and the moon	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.topic»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent about sun=Topic
4	answer speech: assert	past	person		with wisdom and prudence	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=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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