Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 156
At all events, a journey will do you good, and if you will be my shadow, then all your journey shall be paid."
Who acts: journey, you, your · What happens: do, be, pay, journey · To what, where: good, you, events, shadow, journey
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 (journey, you, your), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 events | case |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 events | det |
| 3 | events | event | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 do | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 events | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 journey | det |
| 6 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 do | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 do | aux |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 do | iobj |
| 10 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 do | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 shadow | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 shadow | cc |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 shadow | mark |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 shadow | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 shadow | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 shadow | cop |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 shadow | nmod:poss |
| 18 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 do | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 paid | punct |
| 20 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 paid | advmod |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 journey | det:predet |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 journey | nmod:poss |
| 23 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 paid | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 paid | aux |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 paid | aux:pass |
| 26 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 do | parataxis |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 do | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | future | a journey | good | you | all events | tree rules | ||
| 2 | is a a condition, not said to happen | future | you | my shadow | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | pay | shall · passive | your journey | then | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset | ||||
| 4 | journey | your | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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