Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 232
"No one would believe you," said the shadow; "be reasonable, now, or I will call the guards."
Who acts: one, shadow · What happens: believe, say, be, call · To what, where: you, guards · 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 (one, 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 | _ | 5 believe | punct |
| 2 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 one | det |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 believe | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 believe | aux |
| 5 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 believe | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 believe | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 believe | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 shadow | det |
| 11 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 reasonable | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 reasonable | punct |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 reasonable | cop |
| 15 | reasonable | reasonable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 now | punct |
| 17 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 reasonable | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 call | punct |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 call | cc |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 call | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 call | aux |
| 22 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | parataxis |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 guards | det |
| 24 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 call | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 call | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 call | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe in a quote | would | no one | you | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the shadow | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | infinitive | now | reasonable property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | call in a quote | future | the shadow = shadow | the guards | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent guard=Recipient |
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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