Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 227

And once a year, when I sit in my balcony in the sunshine, you must lie at my feet as becomes a shadow to do; for I must tell you I am going to marry the princess, and our wedding will take place this evening."

Who acts: I, you, wedding, our · What happens: sit, lie, become, do, tell, go · To what, where: balcony, feet, shadow, you, princess, place · 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, you, wedding, our), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	8 sit	cc
2	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	8 sit	advmod
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 year	det
4	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 once	obl:unmarked
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sit	punct
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 sit	advmod
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 sit	nsubj
8	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 balcony	case
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 balcony	nmod:poss
11	balcony	balcony	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sit	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 sunshine	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sunshine	det
14	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sit	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 lie	punct
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 lie	nsubj
17	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 lie	aux
18	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 sit	conj
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 feet	case
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 feet	nmod:poss
21	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 lie	obl
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 becomes	mark
23	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 lie	advcl
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 shadow	det
25	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 becomes	xcomp
26	to	to	PART	_	27 do	mark
27	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 shadow	acl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 tell	punct
29	for	for	SCONJ	_	32 tell	mark
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 tell	nsubj
31	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 tell	aux
32	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 lie	parataxis
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 tell	iobj
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 going	nsubj
35	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 going	aux
36	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 tell	ccomp
37	to	to	PART	_	38 marry	mark
38	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 going	xcomp
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 princess	det
40	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 marry	obj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 take	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 take	cc
43	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 wedding	nmod:poss
44	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 take	nsubj
45	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 take	aux
46	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 tell	ccomp
47	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 take	obj
48	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	49 evening	det
49	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 take	obl:unmarked
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 sit	punct
51	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 sit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	present	I			my balcony		in the sunshine; once property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in balcony=Location
2	lie	must	you			my feet			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at foot=Location
3	become	present	you not said here	a shadow					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	do	to-infinitive	you not said here	a shadow not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	tell speech: assert	must	I		you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
6	go	present · progressive	I						vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	marry	to-infinitive	I not said here	the princess					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient
8	take	future	our wedding	place			evening		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme
9	wed		our						nom wedding «event transitive»: poss=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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