Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 32

“I think my shadow is the only living thing one sees over there,” said the learned man.

Who acts: I, shadow, one, learned man, my · What happens: think, be, see over, say, learn, shadow · To what, where: only living thing · 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 (I, shadow, one, learned 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	3 think	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 think	nsubj
3	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 said	ccomp
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 shadow	nmod:poss
5	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 thing	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 thing	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 thing	det
8	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 thing	amod
9	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 thing	compound
10	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 think	ccomp
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 sees	nsubj
12	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 thing	acl:relcl
13	over	over	ADV	_	14 there	advmod
14	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 sees	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 think	punct
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 think	punct
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 man	det
19	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 man	amod
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	nsubj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	think speech: other in a quote	present	I			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	my shadow	the only living thing		tree rules
3	see over in a quote	present	one	the only living thing not said here	there	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
4	say speech: assert	past	the learned man			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	learn	participle				vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	shadow in a quote		my			nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=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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