Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 174

"What you say is very straightforward and kindly meant," said the shadow, who was now really master. "

Who acts: you, shadow · What happens: say, be, mean · To what, where: master · 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, 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	_	7 straightforward	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 straightforward	nsubj
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 What	acl:relcl
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 straightforward	cop
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 straightforward	advmod
7	straightforward	straightforward	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 said	ccomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 meant	cc
9	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	10 meant	advmod
10	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 straightforward	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 straightforward	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 straightforward	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 shadow	det
15	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 master	punct
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 master	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 master	cop
19	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 master	advmod
20	really	really	ADV	_	21 master	advmod
21	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 shadow	appos
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 master	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 master	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	you				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present				straightforward property	tree rules
3	mean in a quote	past				kindly property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	past	the shadow				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is a	past	the shadow	master	now		tree rules

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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