Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Second Visit, sentence 26

Yes, in that glass sits a demon, in the form of a little, well dressed, attractive and very fascinating man, who thoroughly understands you, agrees with you in everything, and becomes quite a second self to you.

Who acts: glass, fascinating man · What happens: sit, dress, understand, agree, become · To what, where: demon, form, you, everything, second self

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Second Visit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (glass, fascinating 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	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 sits	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sits	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 glass	case
4	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 glass	det
5	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sits	nsubj
6	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 demon	det
8	demon	demon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sits	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 form	punct
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 form	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 form	det
12	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sits	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 little	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 little	det
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 form	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 dressed	punct
17	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 dressed	advmod
18	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 sits	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 attractive	punct
20	attractive	attractive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 dressed	conj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 man	cc
22	very	very	ADV	_	23 fascinating	advmod
23	fascinating	fascinating	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 man	amod
24	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 dressed	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 understands	punct
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 understands	nsubj
27	thoroughly	thoroughly	ADV	_	28 understands	advmod
28	understands	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 man	acl:relcl
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 understands	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 agrees	punct
31	agrees	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 sits	conj
32	with	with	ADP	_	33 you	case
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 agrees	obl
34	in	in	ADP	_	35 everything	case
35	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	31 agrees	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 becomes	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 becomes	cc
38	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 sits	conj
39	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	42 self	det:predet
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 self	det
41	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	42 self	amod
42	self	self	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 becomes	xcomp
43	to	to	ADP	_	44 you	case
44	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 becomes	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sits	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	present	that glass	a demon		the form of a little		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent demon=Theme in form=Location
2	dress	participle	that glass not said here				well property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	understand	present	fascinating man	you			thoroughly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
4	agree speech: agree	present	that glass not said here			everything	with you	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent how S»: agent=Agent with you=Co-Agent
5	become	present	that glass not said here	quite second self	you			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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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