Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 172

They drove together, and rode and walked in company with each other, side by side, or one in front and the other behind, according to the position of the sun. The shadow always knew when to take the place of honor, but the learned man took no notice of it, for he had a good heart, and was exceedingly mild and friendly.

Who acts: people, shadow, learned man, man · What happens: drive, ride, walk, accord, know, take · To what, where: side, company, place, notice, good heart

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 (people, shadow, learned man, 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 drove	nsubj
2	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	together	together	ADV	_	2 drove	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 rode	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 rode	cc
6	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 drove	parataxis
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 walked	cc
8	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 rode	conj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 company	case
10	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 walked	obl
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 each	case
12	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	8 walked	obl
13	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 each	fixed
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 side	punct
15	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rode	obl
16	by	by	ADP	_	17 side	case
17	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 side	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 one	punct
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 one	cc
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 rode	obl
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 front	case
22	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 one	nmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 other	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 other	det
25	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 one	conj
26	behind	behind	ADV	_	6 rode	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 knew	punct
28	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 position	case
29	to	to	ADP	_	28 according	fixed
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 position	det
31	position	position	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 knew	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 sun.	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 sun.	det
34	sun.	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 position	nmod
35	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 shadow	det
36	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 knew	nsubj
37	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	38 knew	advmod
38	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 rode	conj
39	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	41 take	advmod
40	to	to	PART	_	41 take	mark
41	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 knew	xcomp
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 place	det
43	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 take	obj
44	of	of	ADP	_	45 honor	case
45	honor	honor	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 place	nmod
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 took	punct
47	but	but	CCONJ	_	51 took	cc
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 man	det
49	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	50 man	amod
50	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 took	nsubj
51	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 drove	parataxis
52	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	53 notice	det
53	notice	notice	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 took	obj
54	of	of	ADP	_	55 it	case
55	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 notice	nmod
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 had	punct
57	for	for	ADP	_	59 had	case
58	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 had	nsubj
59	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 took	conj
60	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	62 heart	det
61	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	62 heart	amod
62	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 had	obj
63	,	,	PUNCT	_	67 mild	punct
64	and	and	CCONJ	_	67 mild	cc
65	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	67 mild	cop
66	exceedingly	exceedingly	ADV	_	67 mild	advmod
67	mild	mild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 had	parataxis
68	and	and	CCONJ	_	69 friendly	cc
69	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	67 mild	conj
70	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 drove	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	drive	past	people			together property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	ride	past		side by side		one in front obl; behind property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	walk	past			company	with each	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in company=Trajectory
4	accord	gerund					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
5	know	past	the shadow			accord the position of the sun.; always property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	take	to-infinitive	the shadow not said here	the place of honor			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme
7	learn	participle					vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	take	past	the learned man	no notice of notice			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Theme
9	have	past	man	a good heart			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient
10	is	past				exceedingly, mild property	tree rules
11	be						tree rules
12	notice			notice			nom notice «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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