Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 92

“Yes, I will tell you all about it,” said the shadow, and sat down: “but then you must also promise me, that, wherever you may meet me, you will never say to anyone here in the town that I have been your shadow.

Who acts: shadow, you, town · What happens: tell, say, sit down, promise, meet, not say · To what, where: you, that, shadow, anyone, town · 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 (shadow, you, town), 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	_	6 tell	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 tell	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 tell	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	aux
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 tell	iobj
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 you	nmod:unmarked
9	about	about	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 all	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 shadow	det
15	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sat	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 sat	cc
18	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	parataxis
19	down	down	ADP	_	18 sat	compound:prt
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 promise	punct
21	“	"	PUNCT	_	27 promise	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 promise	cc
23	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 promise	advmod
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 promise	nsubj
25	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 promise	aux
26	also	also	ADV	_	27 promise	advmod
27	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 sat	conj
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 promise	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 that	punct
30	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 promise	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 meet	punct
32	wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	35 meet	advmod
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 meet	nsubj
34	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 meet	aux
35	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 promise	conj
36	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 meet	obj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 say	punct
38	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	41 say	nsubj
39	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 say	aux
40	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	41 say	advmod
41	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 promise	parataxis
42	to	to	ADP	_	43 anyone	case
43	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	41 say	obl
44	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	41 say	advmod
45	in	in	ADP	_	47 town	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 town	det
47	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 say	obl
48	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	53 shadow	nsubj
49	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	53 shadow	nsubj
50	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	53 shadow	aux
51	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	53 shadow	cop
52	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 shadow	nmod:poss
53	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 town	acl:relcl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	future	the shadow = shadow		you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	past	the shadow						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	sit down	past							vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	promise speech: promise in a quote	must	you	that	the shadow = shadow		then		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent i=Theme
5	meet in a quote	may	you	the shadow = shadow				wherever property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Co-Agent
6	not say speech: assert in a quote	future	you		anyone	the town; here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to anyone=Recipient
7	is a in a quote	present · perfect	the town	your shadow					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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