Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 225

"Listen my friend," said the shadow to the learned man; "now that I am as fortunate and as powerful as any man can be, I will do something unusually good for you.

Who acts: shadow · What happens: listen, say, learn, be, do · To what, where: friend, something · 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), 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	_	2 Listen	punct
2	Listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 friend	nmod:poss
4	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Listen	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Listen	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Listen	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 shadow	det
9	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	13 man	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 man	det
12	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 man	amod
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shadow	nmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 fortunate	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 fortunate	punct
16	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 fortunate	advmod
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 fortunate	mark
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 fortunate	nsubj
19	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 fortunate	cop
20	as	as	ADP	_	21 fortunate	case
21	fortunate	fortunate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 said	parataxis
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 powerful	cc
23	as	as	ADV	_	24 powerful	advmod
24	powerful	powerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 fortunate	conj
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 be	mark
26	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	27 man	det
27	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 be	nsubj
28	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 be	aux
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 powerful	advcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 do	punct
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 do	nsubj
32	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 do	aux
33	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	conj
34	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	33 do	obj
35	unusually	unusually	ADV	_	36 good	advmod
36	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 something	amod
37	for	for	ADP	_	38 you	case
38	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 do	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	listen in a quote	infinitive		my friend			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the shadow				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	learn	participle					vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is in a quote	present	the shadow = shadow		now	fortunate property	tree rules
5	be in a quote		the shadow = shadow not said here				tree rules
6	do in a quote	future	the shadow = shadow	something		for you	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality

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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