Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 245
That I am a man, and that thou art a shadow--thou art only dressed up!”
Who acts: That, man · What happens: be, dress up · To what, where: man, thou
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 (That, man), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 man | nsubj |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 man | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 man | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 art | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 art | cc |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 art | nsubj |
| 9 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 art | nsubj |
| 10 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 man | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 shadow | det |
| 12 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 art | obj |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 dressed | punct |
| 14 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 17 dressed | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 dressed | aux |
| 16 | only | only | ADV | _ | 17 dressed | advmod |
| 17 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 man | acl |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 dressed | compound:prt |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 17 dressed | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 dressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | That | a man | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | dress up | present · passive | a man not said here | thou | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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