Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 215
"I do not say so positively," observed the shadow; "but I am inclined to believe that he can do so.
Who acts: shadow, prince · What happens: not say, observe, incline, believe, do · To what, where: 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 (shadow, prince), 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 | _ | 5 say | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 say | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 say | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 say | advmod |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 positively | advmod |
| 7 | positively | positively | ADV | _ | 5 say | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 observed | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 observed | punct |
| 10 | observed | observe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 say | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 shadow | det |
| 12 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 observed | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 inclined | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 inclined | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 inclined | cc |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 inclined | nsubj |
| 17 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 inclined | aux:pass |
| 18 | inclined | incline | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 observed | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 believe | mark |
| 20 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 inclined | xcomp |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 do | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 do | nsubj |
| 23 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 do | aux |
| 24 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 believe | ccomp |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 do | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not say speech: assert in a quote | present · do-support | Your shadow = shadow | positively property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | observe | past | the shadow | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent shadow=Topic | |||||
| 3 | incline in a quote | present · passive | Your shadow = shadow | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | believe in a quote | to-infinitive | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 5 | do in a quote | can | prince | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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