Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 164
"You really ought to go to some watering-place," said the shadow on his next visit. "
Who acts: shadow, man · What happens: go, say, visit · To what, where: watering place · 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 (shadow, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 go | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 ought | nsubj |
| 3 | really | really | ADV | _ | 4 ought | advmod |
| 4 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 go | aux |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 go | mark |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 place | case |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 place | det |
| 9 | watering | watering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 place | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 watering | punct |
| 11 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 go | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 go | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 go | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 shadow | det |
| 16 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | obj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 visit | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 visit | nmod:poss |
| 19 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 visit | amod |
| 20 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 shadow | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | ought | some watering place | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the shadow | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | visit | man | nom visit «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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