Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 163

You really look like a shadow," people said to him, and then a cold shudder would pass over him, for he had his own thoughts on the subject.

Who acts: You, people, cold shudder, man · What happens: look, say, pass, have, think · To what, where: man, own thoughts, subject · 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 (You, people, cold shudder, 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 look	nsubj
2	really	really	ADV	_	3 look	advmod
3	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 shadow	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 shadow	det
6	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 look	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 look	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 look	punct
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 pass	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 pass	cc
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 pass	advmod
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 shudder	det
17	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 shudder	amod
18	shudder	shudder	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 pass	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 pass	aux
20	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	parataxis
21	over	over	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 pass	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 had	punct
24	for	for	ADP	_	26 had	case
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 had	nsubj
26	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 pass	advcl
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 thoughts	nmod:poss
28	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 thoughts	amod
29	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 had	obj
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 subject	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 subject	det
32	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 had	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	You					like a shadow	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	people		man				vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to he=Experiencer clause=Topic
3	pass in a quote	would	a cold shudder				then	over man	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over he=Location
4	have in a quote	past	man	man's own thoughts		the subject			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=Patient
5	think in a quote		man						nom thought «cognition 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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