Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 249

“But I will go first!” said the shadow.

Who acts: shadow · What happens: go, say · 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 (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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 go	cc
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 go	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 go	aux
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
6	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 go	advmod
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 shadow	det
11	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	future	the shadow = shadow					first property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: express	past	the shadow						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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