Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 33

“See, how nicely it sits between the flowers.

Who acts: you, shadow · What happens: see, sit · To what, where: flowers

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 (you, 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	_	2 See	punct
2	See	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sits	punct
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 nicely	advmod
5	nicely	nicely	ADV	_	7 sits	advmod
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sits	nsubj
7	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 See	conj
8	between	between	ADP	_	10 flowers	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 flowers	det
10	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sits	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 See	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see in a quote	imperative	you not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	sit in a quote	present	shadow			the flowers		nicely property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent between flower=Location

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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