Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 231
I will disclose everything, and say that I am the man, and that you are only a shadow dressed up in men's clothes."
Who acts: I, you · What happens: disclose, say, be, dress up · To what, where: everything, man, shadow, clothes · 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), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 disclose | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 disclose | aux |
| 3 | disclose | disclose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 3 disclose | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 say | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 say | cc |
| 7 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 disclose | conj |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 man | mark |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 man | nsubj |
| 10 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 man | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 say | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 shadow | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 shadow | cc |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 shadow | mark |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 shadow | nsubj |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 shadow | cop |
| 18 | only | only | ADV | _ | 20 shadow | advmod |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 shadow | det |
| 20 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 man | acl:relcl |
| 21 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 shadow | acl |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 dressed | compound:prt |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 clothes | case |
| 24 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 men | case |
| 26 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 21 dressed | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 disclose | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 disclose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disclose | future | I | everything | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot everything=Topic | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | infinitive | I not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | I | the man | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | you | a shadow | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | dress up | participle | a shadow not said here | men's clothes | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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