Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 99

Now this was perhaps from arrogance; and the shadow on the ground kept itself so still and quiet, that it might hear all that passed: it wished to know how it could get free, and work its way up, so as to become its own master.

Who acts: this, shadow, ground, that · What happens: be, keep, hear, pass, wish, know · To what, where: arrogance, ground, way, own master · 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 (this, shadow, ground, that), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 arrogance	advmod
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 arrogance	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 arrogance	cop
4	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	6 arrogance	advmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 arrogance	case
6	arrogance	arrogance	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 kept	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 kept	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 shadow	det
10	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 kept	nsubj
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 ground	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ground	det
13	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shadow	nmod
14	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 arrogance	parataxis
15	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 kept	obj
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 still	advmod
17	still	still	ADV	_	14 kept	advmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 quiet	cc
19	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 still	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 hear	punct
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 hear	mark
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 hear	nsubj
23	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 hear	aux
24	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 kept	advcl
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 passed	det:predet
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 passed	nsubj
27	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 hear	ccomp
28	:	:	PUNCT	_	30 wished	punct
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 wished	nsubj
30	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 passed	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 know	mark
32	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 wished	xcomp
33	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	36 get	advmod
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 get	nsubj
35	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 get	aux
36	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 know	ccomp
37	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 get	xcomp
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 work	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 work	cc
40	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 wished	conj
41	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 way	nmod:poss
42	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 work	obj
43	up	up	ADV	_	40 work	advmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 become	punct
45	so	so	ADV	_	48 become	advmod
46	as	as	SCONJ	_	48 become	mark
47	to	to	PART	_	48 become	mark
48	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 work	conj
49	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 master	nmod:poss
50	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 master	amod
51	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 become	xcomp
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 arrogance	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	this		arrogance	now	perhaps property	tree rules
2	keep	past	the shadow on the ground	ground		still		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Theme
3	hear	might	ground					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	pass	past	that					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	wish	past	ground					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	know not said to happen	to-infinitive	ground not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	get	could	ground				free property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
8	work up	infinitive	ground not said here	ground's way				vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent way=Material
9	become	to-infinitive	ground not said here	ground's own master				vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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