Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 188

They say he is here to make his beard grow," she thought; "but I know the real cause, he is unable to cast a shadow."

Who acts: Sorrow, wish, beard, disease, I · What happens: say, be, grow, think, know, cast · To what, where: real cause, shadow · 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 (Sorrow, wish, beard, disease), 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 say	nsubj
2	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 make	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 make	cop
5	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 make	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 make	mark
7	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 say	ccomp
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 beard	nmod:poss
9	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 grow	nsubj
10	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 make	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 thought	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 thought	punct
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 thought	nsubj
14	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 grow	advcl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 know	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 know	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 know	cc
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 know	nsubj
19	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 thought	parataxis
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 cause	det
21	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 cause	amod
22	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 know	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 unable	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 unable	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 unable	cop
26	unable	unable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 know	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 cast	mark
28	cast	cast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 unable	xcomp
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 shadow	det
30	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 cast	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Sorrow				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is	present	wish		here	make property	tree rules
3	grow	present	wish's beard				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	think speech: other in a quote	past	disease				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	know	present	I	the real cause			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer cause=Stimulus
6	is	present	wish			unable property	tree rules
7	cast	to-infinitive	wish not said here	a shadow			vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shadow=Product

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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