Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 23

“True,” said the clerk, shrugging his shoulders; “and yet you are the better off.

Who acts: clerk, you · What happens: say, shrug, be · To what, where: shoulders · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clerk, you), 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 said	punct
2	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 True	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 clerk	det
7	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 shrugging	punct
9	shrugging	shrug	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 said	advcl
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 shoulders	nmod:poss
11	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 shrugging	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 better	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 better	cc
15	yet	yet	ADV	_	19 better	advmod
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 better	nsubj
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 better	cop
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 better	det
19	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 said	parataxis
20	off	off	ADP	_	19 better	compound:prt
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the clerk				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	shrug	gerund	the clerk not said here	Clerk's shoulders			vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoulder=Patient
3	is in a quote	present	you		yet	good property	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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