Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 183
Then the shadow addressed his former master as thou.
Who acts: shadow · What happens: address · To what, where: former master
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), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 addressed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 shadow | det |
| 3 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 addressed | nsubj |
| 4 | addressed | address | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 master | nmod:poss |
| 6 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 master | amod |
| 7 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 addressed | obj |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 thou | case |
| 9 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 addressed | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 addressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | address | past | the shadow | wish's former master | then | as thou | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent master=Destination |
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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