Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 216
He has followed me for so many years, and has heard so much from me, that I think it is very likely.
Who acts: I, beard · What happens: follow, hear, think, be · To what, where: prince · 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 (I, beard), 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 | 3 followed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 followed | aux |
| 3 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 followed | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 years | case |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 many | advmod |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 years | amod |
| 8 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 followed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 heard | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 heard | cc |
| 11 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 heard | aux |
| 12 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 followed | parataxis |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 much | advmod |
| 14 | much | much | ADV | _ | 12 heard | advmod |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 me | case |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 heard | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 think | punct |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 think | mark |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 think | nsubj |
| 20 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 heard | conj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 likely | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 likely | cop |
| 23 | very | very | ADV | _ | 24 likely | advmod |
| 24 | likely | likely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 think | ccomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | present · perfect · passive | prince | year | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: subject=Theme i=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | hear | present · perfect | from me | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from i=Source | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | present | I | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | present | beard | likely 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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