Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 209
He is a clever man," she thought to herself, "which is a good thing, and he dances admirably, which is also good.
Who acts: prince, Water, good thing · What happens: be, think, dance · To what, where: clever man, Water, good thing · 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 (prince, Water, good thing), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 man | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 man | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 4 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 thought | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 thought | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 thought | nsubj |
| 9 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 man | acl:relcl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 herself | case |
| 11 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 thought | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 thing | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 thing | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 thing | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 thing | cop |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 thing | det |
| 17 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 thing | amod |
| 18 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thought | ccomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 dances | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 dances | cc |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 dances | nsubj |
| 22 | dances | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 thing | conj |
| 23 | admirably | admirably | ADV | _ | 22 dances | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 good | punct |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 good | nsubj |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 good | cop |
| 27 | also | also | ADV | _ | 28 good | advmod |
| 28 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 thing | parataxis |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | prince | a clever man | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other in a quote | past | Water | a clever man not said here | Water | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot man=Theme | |||
| 3 | is a | present | a good thing | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | dance | present | prince | admirably property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | present | a good thing | good 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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