Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 184
"It is going rather too far," said the latter, "that I am to say you when I speak to him, and he is to say thou to me."
Who acts: feeling, I, wish · What happens: go, say, speak, be · To what, where: latter, that, wish, me · 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 (feeling, I, wish), 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 | _ | 4 going | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 going | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 going | aux |
| 4 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 7 far | advmod |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 7 far | advmod |
| 7 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 going | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 going | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 going | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 latter | det |
| 12 | latter | latter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 say | obj |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 say | nsubj |
| 17 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 say | aux |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 say | mark |
| 19 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | parataxis |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 say | obj |
| 21 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 23 speak | mark |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 speak | nsubj |
| 23 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 say | ccomp |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 speak | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 say | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 say | cc |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 say | nsubj |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 say | cop |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 say | mark |
| 31 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | parataxis |
| 32 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 31 say | obj |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 me | case |
| 34 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 say | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 31 say | punct |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | present · progressive | feeling | far property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the latter | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | I | that | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | speak speech: other in a quote | present | I | wish | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | wish | me | say property | 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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