Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 118
"I tell you I have been there, and therefore you may be sure that I saw everything that was to be seen.
Who acts: I, you · What happens: tell, be, see · To what, where: you, everything · 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 (I, 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 | _ | 3 tell | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 tell | nsubj |
| 3 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 tell | iobj |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 there | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 there | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 there | cop |
| 8 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 tell | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sure | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sure | cc |
| 11 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 15 sure | advmod |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 sure | nsubj |
| 13 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 sure | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 sure | cop |
| 15 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tell | advcl |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 saw | mark |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 saw | nsubj |
| 18 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 sure | ccomp |
| 19 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 18 saw | obj |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 seen | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 seen | aux:pass |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 seen | mark |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 seen | aux:pass |
| 24 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 everything | acl:relcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | present | I | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present · perfect | I | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | may | you | sure, therefore property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | see in a quote | past | I | everything | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | see in a quote | past · passive | I not said here | everything not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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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