Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 226
You shall live in my palace, drive with me in the royal carriage, and have a hundred thousand dollars a year; but you must allow every one to call you a shadow, and never venture to say that you have been a man.
Who acts: You, one · What happens: live, drive, have, allow, call, not venture · To what, where: palace, royal carriage, thousand dollars, one, you, 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 (You, one), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 live | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 live | aux |
| 3 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 palace | case |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 palace | nmod:poss |
| 6 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 live | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 drive | punct |
| 8 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 live | parataxis |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 me | case |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 drive | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 carriage | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 carriage | det |
| 13 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 carriage | amod |
| 14 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 drive | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 have | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 have | cc |
| 17 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 live | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 hundred | det |
| 19 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 thousand | compound |
| 20 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 dollars | nummod |
| 21 | dollars | dollar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 have | obj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 year | det |
| 23 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 dollars | nmod:unmarked |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 allow | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 allow | cc |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 allow | nsubj |
| 27 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 allow | aux |
| 28 | allow | allow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 live | parataxis |
| 29 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 one | det |
| 30 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 allow | obj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 call | mark |
| 32 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 allow | xcomp |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 call | obj |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 shadow | det |
| 35 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 call | xcomp |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 venture | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 venture | cc |
| 38 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 39 venture | advmod |
| 39 | venture | venture | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 allow | conj |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 say | mark |
| 41 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 venture | xcomp |
| 42 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 47 man | mark |
| 43 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 47 man | nsubj |
| 44 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 47 man | aux |
| 45 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 47 man | cop |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 man | det |
| 47 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 say | ccomp |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 live | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | shall | You | my palace | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in palace=Location | ||||
| 2 | drive | infinitive | the royal carriage | with me | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | have | infinitive | You not said here | thousand dollars a year | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dollar=Patient | ||||
| 4 | allow | must | you | every one | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer one=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | call not said to happen | to-infinitive | every one not said here | you | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | not venture | infinitive | you not said here | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | is a | present · perfect | you | a man | 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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