Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 214
"Your shadow," said the princess; "indeed that would be very remarkable."
Who acts: shadow, that, Your · What happens: say, be, shadow · To what, where: princess · 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 (shadow, that, Your), 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 shadow | punct |
| 2 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 shadow | nmod:poss |
| 3 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 shadow | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 shadow | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 princess | det |
| 8 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 remarkable | punct |
| 11 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 16 remarkable | advmod |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 remarkable | nsubj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 remarkable | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 remarkable | cop |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 remarkable | advmod |
| 16 | remarkable | remarkable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 said | parataxis |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 remarkable | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 remarkable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Your shadow | the princess | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | would | that | indeed, remarkable property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | shadow in a quote | Your | 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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