Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 235

“No one--not even my shadow!” said the shadow, and he had his own thoughts about it!

Who acts: one, man, my · What happens: say, have, shadow, think · To what, where: shadow, own thoughts · 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 (one, man, 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	_	11 said	punct
2	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 one	det
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
4	--	--	PUNCT	_	8 shadow	punct
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 shadow	advmod
6	even	even	ADV	_	8 shadow	advmod
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 shadow	nmod:poss
8	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 one	appos
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 shadow	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 shadow	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 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	_	17 had	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 had	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 had	nsubj
17	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	conj
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 thoughts	nmod:poss
19	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 thoughts	amod
20	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 had	obj
21	about	about	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 thoughts	nmod
23	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	no one	the shadow		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent shadow=Topic
2	have	past	man	man's own thoughts	about beard	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=Patient
3	shadow in a quote		my			nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=agent
4	think		man		about beard	nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent about=obl

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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