Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 56

He said, “Hem! hem!” but it was of no use.

Who acts: man, shadow · What happens: say, be · To what, where: Hem · 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	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Hem	punct
4	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 Hem	punct
5	Hem	hem	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	obj
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 hem	punct
7	hem	hem	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Hem	appos
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 hem	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 Hem	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 use	cc
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 use	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 use	cop
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 use	case
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 use	det
15	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	conj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	man	Hem					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hem=Topic
2	is	past	shadow					of no use	tree rules

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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