Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 45
“What is that?” said he, as he came out into the sunshine.
Who acts: that, man · What happens: be, say, come out · To what, where: sunshine · 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 (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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 said | nsubj:outer |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 What | cop |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 What | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 What | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 What | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 came | punct |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 came | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 came | nsubj |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 13 | out | out | ADV | _ | 12 came | advmod |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 sunshine | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sunshine | det |
| 16 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | that | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | come out | past | man | the sunshine | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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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