Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 220
"What a wonderful man he must be, to have such a clever shadow!" thought she. "
Who acts: man · What happens: be, think · To what, where: nail · 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 (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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 thought | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 thought | obj |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 4 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 thought | nsubj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 have | nsubj |
| 7 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 have | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 have | cop |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 have | punct |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 have | mark |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 man | acl:relcl |
| 12 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 shadow | det:predet |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 shadow | det |
| 14 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 shadow | amod |
| 15 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 have | obj |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 have | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 have | punct |
| 18 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 thought | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 thought | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | must | man | have property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | nail | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent what=Theme she=Attribute |
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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