Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 113

"It was all that you describe," said the shadow; "but I did not go quite in--I remained in the twilight of the ante-room--but I was in a very good position,--I could see and hear all that was going on in the court of poetry."

Who acts: sky, shadow, that · What happens: be, say, not go, remain, see, hear · To what, where: twilight, good position, court · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» 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 (sky, shadow, 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 describe	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 describe	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 describe	cop
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 describe	det:predet
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 describe	obj
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 describe	nsubj
7	describe	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 describe	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 describe	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 shadow	det
12	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 go	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 go	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 go	cc
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 go	nsubj
17	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 go	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 go	advmod
19	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
20	quite	quite	ADV	_	19 go	advmod
21	in	in	SCONJ	_	24 remained	mark
22	--	--	PUNCT	_	21 in	punct
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 remained	nsubj
24	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 go	advcl
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 twilight	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 twilight	det
27	twilight	twilight	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 remained	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	32 room	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 room	det
30	ante	ante	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 room	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 ante	punct
32	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 twilight	nmod
33	--	--	PUNCT	_	41 position	punct
34	but	but	CCONJ	_	41 position	cc
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 position	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 position	cop
37	in	in	ADP	_	41 position	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 position	det
39	very	very	ADV	_	40 good	advmod
40	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 position	amod
41	position	position	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	ccomp
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 see	punct
43	--	--	PUNCT	_	46 see	punct
44	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	46 see	nsubj
45	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 see	aux
46	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 position	parataxis
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 hear	cc
48	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 see	conj
49	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	52 going	det:predet
50	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	52 going	nsubj
51	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 going	aux
52	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	48 hear	ccomp
53	on	on	ADP	_	52 going	compound:prt
54	in	in	ADP	_	56 court	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 court	det
56	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 going	obl
57	of	of	ADP	_	58 poetry	case
58	poetry	poetry	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 court	nmod
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	46 see	punct
60	"	"	PUNCT	_	46 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	past	sky		describe property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the shadow			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not go in a quote	past · do-support	the shadow = shadow			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	remain in a quote	past	the shadow = shadow	the twilight of the ante room		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in twilight=Location
5	is in a quote	past	the shadow = shadow	a good position		tree rules
6	see in a quote	could	the shadow = shadow			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	hear in a quote	infinitive	the shadow = shadow not said here			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
8	go on in a quote	past · progressive	that	the court of poetry		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in court=Location

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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