Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 195

Persons often give their servants finer cloth for their liveries than for their own clothes, and so I have dressed out my shadow like a man; nay, you may observe that I have even given him a shadow of his own; it is rather expensive, but I like to have things about me that are peculiar."

Who acts: Persons, I, you, side, things, my · What happens: give, dress out, observe, be, like, have · To what, where: finer cloth, servants, shadow, man, things, peculiar

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 (Persons, I, you, side), 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	Persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 give	nsubj
2	often	often	ADV	_	3 give	advmod
3	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 servants	nmod:poss
5	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 give	iobj
6	finer	fine	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 cloth	amod
7	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 give	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 liveries	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 liveries	nmod:poss
10	liveries	livery	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 give	obl
11	than	than	ADP	_	15 clothes	case
12	for	for	ADP	_	15 clothes	case
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 clothes	nmod:poss
14	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 clothes	amod
15	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	10 liveries	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 dressed	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 dressed	cc
18	so	so	ADV	_	21 dressed	advmod
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 dressed	nsubj
20	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 dressed	aux
21	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 give	parataxis
22	out	out	ADP	_	21 dressed	compound:prt
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 shadow	nmod:poss
24	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 dressed	obj
25	like	like	ADP	_	27 man	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 man	det
27	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 dressed	obl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 observe	punct
29	nay	nay	INTJ	_	33 observe	discourse
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 nay	punct
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 observe	nsubj
32	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 observe	aux
33	observe	observe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 give	advcl
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 given	mark
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 given	nsubj
36	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 given	aux
37	even	even	ADV	_	38 given	advmod
38	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 observe	ccomp
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 given	iobj
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 shadow	det
41	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 given	obj
42	of	of	ADP	_	44 own	case
43	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 own	nmod:poss
44	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 shadow	nmod
45	;	;	PUNCT	_	49 expensive	punct
46	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 expensive	nsubj
47	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	49 expensive	cop
48	rather	rather	ADV	_	49 expensive	advmod
49	expensive	expensive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 give	conj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 like	punct
51	but	but	CCONJ	_	53 like	cc
52	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	53 like	nsubj
53	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 give	conj
54	to	to	PART	_	55 have	mark
55	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	53 like	xcomp
56	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 have	obj
57	about	about	ADP	_	58 me	case
58	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	56 things	nmod
59	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	61 peculiar	nsubj
60	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	61 peculiar	cop
61	peculiar	peculiar	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 things	acl:relcl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 give	punct
63	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	present	Persons	finer cloth	persons's servants	for persons's liveries than persons's own clothes; often property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent servant=Recipient cloth=Theme for livery=Asset
2	dress out	present · perfect	I	my shadow		like a man	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shadow=Patient
3	observe	may	you				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	give	present · perfect	I	a shadow of man's own	man		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient shadow=Theme
5	is	present	side			expensive property	tree rules
6	like	present	I				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
7	have not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	things		about me	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient
8	is a	present	things	peculiar			tree rules
9	shadow		my				nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=agent

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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