Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 150
"That is what I never do," said the shadow; "I am growing quite fat and stout, which every one ought to be.
Who acts: That, shadow · What happens: be, not do, say, grow · To what, where: fat · 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 (That, shadow), 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 | _ | 4 what | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 what | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 what | cop |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 said | nsubj:outer |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 do | nsubj |
| 6 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 7 do | advmod |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 what | acl:relcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 what | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 what | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 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 | _ | 17 growing | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 growing | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 growing | nsubj |
| 16 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 growing | aux |
| 17 | growing | grow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 said | advcl |
| 18 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 19 fat | advmod |
| 19 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 growing | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 stout | cc |
| 21 | stout | stout | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 fat | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 ought | punct |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 ought | nsubj |
| 24 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 one | det |
| 25 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 ought | nsubj |
| 26 | ought | ought | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 fat | acl:relcl |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 be | mark |
| 28 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 ought | xcomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | That | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not do in a quote | present | the shadow = shadow | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the shadow | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | grow in a quote | present · progressive | the shadow = shadow | fat | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | be in a quote | to-infinitive | the shadow = shadow not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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