Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 54

He had placed the light directly behind him, for he knew that the shadow would always have its master for a screen, but he could not entice it.

Who acts: man, shadow · What happens: place, know, have, not entice · To what, where: light, master, shadow · 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 (man, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 placed	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 placed	aux
3	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 light	det
5	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 placed	obj
6	directly	directly	ADV	_	3 placed	advmod
7	behind	behind	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 directly	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 knew	punct
10	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 knew	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 knew	nsubj
12	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 placed	conj
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 have	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 shadow	det
15	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 have	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 have	aux
17	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	18 have	advmod
18	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 knew	ccomp
19	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 master	nmod:poss
20	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 have	obj
21	for	for	ADP	_	23 screen	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 screen	det
23	screen	screen	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 master	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 entice	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 entice	cc
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 entice	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 entice	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 entice	advmod
29	entice	entice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 placed	conj
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 entice	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 placed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	place	past · perfect	man	the light	directly property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent light=Theme
2	know	past	man			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	have	would	the shadow	shadow's master	for a screen; always property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent master=Patient
4	not entice	could	man	shadow		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer

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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