Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 219
So she walked up to the learned man, who stood in the doorway, and spoke to him of the sun, and the moon, of the green forests, and of people near home and far off; and the learned man conversed with her pleasantly and sensibly.
Who acts: nail, learned man · What happens: walk up, learn, stand, speak, converse · To what, where: moon, doorway, man, learned man · 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 (nail, learned man), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 walked | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 walked | nsubj |
| 3 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 walked | compound:prt |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 man | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 7 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 man | amod |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 walked | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 stood | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 stood | nsubj |
| 11 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 man | acl:relcl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 doorway | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 doorway | det |
| 14 | doorway | doorway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stood | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 spoke | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 spoke | cc |
| 17 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 walked | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 spoke | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 sun | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 sun | det |
| 22 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 spoke | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 moon | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 moon | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 moon | det |
| 26 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 walked | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 forests | punct |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 forests | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 forests | det |
| 30 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 forests | amod |
| 31 | forests | forest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 walked | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 off | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 off | cc |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 people | case |
| 35 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 off | obl |
| 36 | near | near | ADP | _ | 37 home | case |
| 37 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 people | nmod |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 off | cc |
| 39 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 40 off | advmod |
| 40 | off | off | ADV | _ | 3 walked | advcl |
| 41 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 45 man | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 man | cc |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 man | det |
| 44 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 45 man | amod |
| 45 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 walked | obl |
| 46 | conversed | converse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 45 man | acl |
| 47 | with | with | ADP | _ | 48 her | case |
| 48 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 conversed | obl |
| 49 | pleasantly | pleasantly | ADV | _ | 46 conversed | advmod |
| 50 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 sensibly | cc |
| 51 | sensibly | sensibly | ADV | _ | 49 pleasantly | conj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk up | past | nail | the moon | to the learned man result; of the green forests; the learned man obl | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to man=Result | |||
| 2 | learn | participle | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | stand | past | the learned man | the doorway | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in doorway=Location | ||||
| 4 | speak speech: other | past | nail not said here | man | of the sun | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent | |||
| 5 | learn | participle | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | converse speech: other | participle | the learned man not said here | with nail; pleasantly property | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with she=Co-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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