Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 98

“Now I shall tell you my adventures,” said the shadow; and then he sat, with the polished boots, as heavily as he could, on the arm of the learned man's new shadow, which lay like a poodle-dog at his feet.

Who acts: shadow, man, new shadow, my, learned man · What happens: tell, say, sit, polish, learn, lie · To what, where: adventures, you, arm · 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, man, new shadow, my), 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	_	5 tell	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 tell	advmod
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 tell	nsubj
4	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	aux
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 tell	iobj
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 adventures	nmod:poss
8	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tell	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 shadow	det
13	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 sat	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 sat	cc
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 sat	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 sat	nsubj
18	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 boots	punct
20	with	with	ADP	_	23 boots	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 boots	det
22	polished	polish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 boots	amod
23	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 sat	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 heavily	punct
25	as	as	ADV	_	26 heavily	advmod
26	heavily	heavily	ADV	_	23 boots	advmod
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 could	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 could	nsubj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 heavily	advcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 arm	punct
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 arm	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 arm	det
33	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sat	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	40 shadow	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 man	det
36	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 man	amod
37	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 shadow	nmod:poss
38	's	's	PART	_	37 man	case
39	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 shadow	amod
40	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 arm	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 lay	punct
42	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 lay	nsubj
43	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 shadow	acl:relcl
44	like	like	ADP	_	48 dog	case
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 dog	det
46	poodle	poodle	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 dog	compound
47	-	-	PUNCT	_	46 poodle	punct
48	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 lay	obl
49	at	at	ADP	_	51 feet	case
50	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 feet	nmod:poss
51	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 dog	nmod
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	shall	the shadow = shadow	my adventures	you		now		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient adventure=Topic
2	say speech: assert	past	the shadow						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	sit	past	man			the arm of the learned man's new shadow	then	with the polished boots	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on arm=Location
4	polish	participle							vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
5	learn	participle							vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	lie	past	the learned man's new shadow					like a poodle dog at man's feet	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	adventure in a quote		my						nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=agent
8	shadow		the learned man						nom shadow «state 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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