Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 94

“Be quite at thy ease about that,” said the learned man; “I shall not say to anyone who thou actually art: here is my hand--I promise it, and a man's bond is his word.”

Who acts: ease, bond, man · What happens: be, say, learn, not say, promise, bond · To what, where: ease, anyone, hand, word · 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 (ease, bond, 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	_	6 ease	punct
2	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 ease	cop
3	quite	quite	ADV	_	6 ease	advmod
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 ease	case
5	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	6 ease	nmod:poss
6	ease	ease	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 that	case
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 ease	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 ease	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 ease	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 man	det
13	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 man	amod
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 say	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 say	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 say	nsubj
18	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 say	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 say	advmod
20	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	conj
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 anyone	case
22	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	20 say	obl
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 art	nsubj
24	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	26 art	nsubj
25	actually	actually	ADV	_	26 art	advmod
26	art	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 anyone	acl:relcl
27	:	:	PUNCT	_	31 hand	punct
28	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 hand	advmod
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 hand	cop
30	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 hand	nmod:poss
31	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	ccomp
32	--	--	PUNCT	_	34 promise	punct
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 promise	nsubj
34	promise	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 hand	conj
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 promise	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 word	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 word	cc
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 man	det
39	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 bond	nmod:poss
40	's	's	PART	_	39 man	case
41	bond	bond	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 word	nsubj
42	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 word	cop
43	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 word	nmod:poss
44	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 hand	appos
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	44 word	punct
46	”	"	PUNCT	_	31 hand	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	infinitive				thy ease	about that	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	thy ease					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	learn	participle						vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not say speech: assert in a quote	shall	thy ease = ease		anyone			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to anyone=Recipient
5	is a in a quote	present		my hand		here		tree rules
6	promise speech: promise in a quote	present	thy ease = ease	ease				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent it=Theme
7	is a in a quote	present	a man's bond	man's word				tree rules
8	bond in a quote		a man					nom bond «phenomenon transitive»: poss=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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