Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 239
Thou shalt always live with me in the palace, drive with me in my royal carriage, and have ten thousand pounds a year; but then thou must submit to be called SHADOW by all and everyone; thou must not say that thou hast ever been a man; and once a year, when I sit on the balcony in the sunshine, thou must lie at my feet, as a shadow shall do!
Who acts: Thou, I, shadow · What happens: live, drive, have, submit, call, not say · To what, where: palace, royal carriage, thousand pounds, SHADOW, man, balcony · 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 (Thou, I, 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 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 live | nsubj |
| 2 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 4 live | aux |
| 3 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 4 live | advmod |
| 4 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 me | case |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 live | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 palace | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 palace | det |
| 9 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 live | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 drive | punct |
| 11 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 live | parataxis |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 me | case |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 drive | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 carriage | case |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 carriage | nmod:poss |
| 16 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 carriage | amod |
| 17 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 drive | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 have | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 have | cc |
| 20 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 live | conj |
| 21 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 thousand | compound |
| 22 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 pounds | nummod |
| 23 | pounds | pound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 have | obj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 year | det |
| 25 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 have | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 submit | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 submit | cc |
| 28 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 31 submit | advmod |
| 29 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 31 submit | nsubj |
| 30 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 submit | aux |
| 31 | submit | submit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 live | parataxis |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 called | mark |
| 33 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 34 called | aux:pass |
| 34 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 submit | advcl |
| 35 | SHADOW | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 called | xcomp |
| 36 | by | by | ADP | _ | 37 all | case |
| 37 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 called | xcomp |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 everyone | cc |
| 39 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 37 all | conj |
| 40 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 44 say | punct |
| 41 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 44 say | nsubj |
| 42 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 say | aux |
| 43 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 44 say | advmod |
| 44 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 submit | conj |
| 45 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 51 man | mark |
| 46 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 51 man | nsubj |
| 47 | hast | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 51 man | aux |
| 48 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 51 man | advmod |
| 49 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 51 man | cop |
| 50 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 51 man | det |
| 51 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 say | ccomp |
| 52 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 56 year | punct |
| 53 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 56 year | cc |
| 54 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 56 year | advmod |
| 55 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 56 year | det |
| 56 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 live | obl |
| 57 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 60 sit | punct |
| 58 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 60 sit | advmod |
| 59 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 60 sit | nsubj |
| 60 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 live | parataxis |
| 61 | on | on | ADP | _ | 63 balcony | case |
| 62 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 63 balcony | det |
| 63 | balcony | balcony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 60 sit | obl |
| 64 | in | in | ADP | _ | 66 sunshine | case |
| 65 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 66 sunshine | det |
| 66 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 60 sit | obl |
| 67 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 70 lie | punct |
| 68 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 70 lie | nsubj |
| 69 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 70 lie | aux |
| 70 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 60 sit | conj |
| 71 | at | at | ADP | _ | 73 feet | case |
| 72 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 73 feet | nmod:poss |
| 73 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 70 lie | obl |
| 74 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 79 do | punct |
| 75 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 79 do | mark |
| 76 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 77 shadow | det |
| 77 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 79 do | nsubj |
| 78 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 79 do | aux |
| 79 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 70 lie | conj |
| 80 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 live | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | shall | Thou | the palace | year | with me; always property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with i=Location | ||
| 2 | drive | infinitive | my royal carriage | with me | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | have | present | Thou not said here | thousand pounds | year | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pound=Patient | |||
| 4 | submit | must | thou | then | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | call | to-infinitive · passive | thou not said here | SHADOW | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V» | ||||
| 6 | not say speech: assert | must | thou | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | is a | present · perfect | thou | a man | ever | tree rules | |||
| 8 | sit | present | I | the balcony | in the sunshine | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on balcony=Location | |||
| 9 | lie | must | thou | my feet | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at foot=Location | ||||
| 10 | do | shall | a shadow | vn act-114-1 «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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