Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 39
Art thou going?” and then he nodded to the shadow, and the shadow nodded again.
Who acts: thou, stranger, shadow · What happens: go, nod · To what, where: shadow
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, stranger, 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 | Art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 going | nsubj |
| 3 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Art | parataxis |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 going | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Art | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 nodded | cc |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 nodded | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 nodded | nsubj |
| 9 | nodded | nod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Art | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 shadow | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 shadow | det |
| 12 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 nodded | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 nodded | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 nodded | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 shadow | det |
| 16 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 nodded | nsubj |
| 17 | nodded | nod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 nodded | conj |
| 18 | again | again | ADV | _ | 17 nodded | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Art | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | gerund | thou | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | nod in a quote | past | stranger | the shadow | then | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to shadow=Recipient | |||
| 3 | nod in a quote | past | the shadow | again | vn wink-40.3.1 «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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