Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 51

He would, therefore, not talk about it at all; and that was wisely thought.

Who acts: man · What happens: not talk, think · To what, where: all, that

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), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 talk	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 talk	aux
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 therefore	punct
4	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	7 talk	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 talk	punct
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 talk	advmod
7	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	about	about	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 talk	obl
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 talk	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 thought	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 thought	cc
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 thought	nsubj:pass
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 thought	aux:pass
16	wisely	wisely	ADV	_	17 thought	advmod
17	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 talk	conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 talk	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not talk	would	man			all		about shadow; therefore property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic
2	think speech: other	past · passive		that				wisely property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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