Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 5

The learned man from the cold lands--he was a young man, and seemed to be a clever man--sat in a glowing oven; it took effect on him, he became quite meagre--even his shadow shrunk in, for the sun had also an effect on it.

Who acts: man, learned man, it, sun · What happens: learn, be, seem, sit, glow, take · To what, where: young man, clever man, glowing oven, effect, 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 (man, learned man, it, sun), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 seemed	nsubj
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 lands	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lands	det
6	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lands	amod
7	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 man	nmod
8	--	--	PUNCT	_	13 man	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 man	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 man	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 man	det
12	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 man	amod
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lands	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 seemed	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 seemed	cc
16	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	to	to	PART	_	21 man	mark
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 man	cop
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 man	det
20	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 man	amod
21	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 seemed	xcomp
22	--	--	PUNCT	_	23 sat	punct
23	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 seemed	conj
24	in	in	ADP	_	27 oven	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 oven	det
26	glowing	glow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 oven	amod
27	oven	oven	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sat	obl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 took	punct
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 took	nsubj
30	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 seemed	parataxis
31	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 took	obj
32	on	on	ADP	_	33 him	case
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 took	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 became	punct
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 became	nsubj
36	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 took	conj
37	quite	quite	ADV	_	38 meagre	advmod
38	meagre	meagre	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 became	xcomp
39	--	--	PUNCT	_	42 shadow	punct
40	even	even	ADV	_	42 shadow	advmod
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 shadow	nmod:poss
42	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 took	parataxis
43	shrunk	shrink	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 shadow	acl
44	in	in	ADV	_	43 shrunk	advmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 had	punct
46	for	for	SCONJ	_	49 had	mark
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 sun	det
48	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 had	nsubj
49	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 took	conj
50	also	also	ADV	_	52 effect	advmod
51	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 effect	det
52	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 had	obj
53	on	on	ADP	_	54 it	case
54	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 effect	nmod
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	learn	participle					vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	man	a young man			tree rules
3	seem	past	the learned man from the cold lands and a young man				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	is a	to-infinitive	the learned man from the cold lands and a young man not said here	a clever man			tree rules
5	sit	past	the learned man from the cold lands and a young man not said here		a glowing oven		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in oven=Location
6	glow	gerund					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	take	past	it	effect		on man	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent effect=Theme on he=Destination
8	become	past	man			meagre property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
9	shrink	participle		man's shadow not said here			vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
10	have	past	the sun	a effect	effect		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Patient
11	shadow		man				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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