Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 213

"I learnt something about it in my childhood," he replied; "and believe that even my very shadow, standing over there by the door, could answer it."

Who acts: prince, princess, shadow, my · What happens: learn, reply, believe, stand over, answer, shadow · To what, where: something, childhood, shadow, question · 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, princess, shadow, my), 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	_	3 learnt	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 learnt	nsubj
3	learnt	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 learnt	obj
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 something	nmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 childhood	case
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 childhood	nmod:poss
9	childhood	childhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 learnt	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 replied	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 replied	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 replied	nsubj
13	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 learnt	parataxis
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 learnt	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 learnt	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 believe	cc
17	believe	believe	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 learnt	conj
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 answer	mark
19	even	even	ADV	_	22 shadow	advmod
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 shadow	nmod:poss
21	very	very	ADV	_	22 shadow	advmod
22	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 answer	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 standing	punct
24	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 shadow	acl
25	over	over	ADV	_	26 there	advmod
26	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 standing	advmod
27	by	by	ADP	_	29 door	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 door	det
29	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 standing	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 shadow	punct
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 answer	aux
32	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 believe	advcl
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 answer	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 learnt	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 learnt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	learn in a quote	past	prince	something		my childhood	about question	tree rules
2	reply speech: assert	past	prince					vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	believe in a quote	infinitive	the princess = princess not said here					vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
4	stand over in a quote	gerund	my shadow not said here			there	by the door	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by door=Location
5	answer speech: assert in a quote	could	the princess = princess not said here	my shadow	question			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
6	shadow in a quote		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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