Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 50

* It was known to everybody at home, in the cold lands; and if the learned man now came there and told his story, they would say that he was imitating it, and that he had no need to do.

Who acts: learned man, lands, man · What happens: know, learn, come, tell, say, imitate · To what, where: shadow, home, story, need · 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 (learned man, lands, 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	_	4 known	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 known	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 known	aux:pass
4	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 everybody	case
6	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 known	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 home	case
8	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 known	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 lands	punct
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 lands	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 lands	det
12	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 lands	amod
13	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 known	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 came	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 came	cc
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 came	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 man	det
18	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 man	amod
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 came	nsubj
20	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 man	advmod
21	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 known	parataxis
22	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 came	advmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 told	cc
24	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 came	conj
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 story	nmod:poss
26	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 told	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 say	punct
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 say	nsubj
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 say	aux
30	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 told	conj
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 imitating	mark
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 imitating	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 imitating	aux
34	imitating	imitate	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 say	advcl
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 imitating	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 had	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 had	cc
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 had	mark
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 had	nsubj
40	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 told	parataxis
41	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	42 need	det
42	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 had	obj
43	to	to	PART	_	44 do	mark
44	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 need	acl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 known	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	past · passive		shadow	home	to everybody; in the cold lands	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus
2	learn	participle					vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	come a condition, not said to happen	past	the learned man		there		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	past	the learned man not said here	man's story			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient
5	say speech: assert	would	lands = land				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	imitate	past · progressive	man	shadow			vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
7	have	past	man	no need			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent need=Patient
8	do	to-infinitive	man not said here	no need not said here			vn act-114-1 «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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