Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 234
"But I shall be there first," replied the shadow, "and you will be sent to prison."
Who acts: shadow · What happens: be, reply, send · To what, where: you, prison · 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 | _ | 6 there | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 there | cc |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 there | nsubj |
| 4 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 there | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 there | cop |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 7 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 there | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
| 10 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 there | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 shadow | det |
| 12 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 replied | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 there | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 sent | cc |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 sent | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 sent | aux:pass |
| 19 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 there | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 prison | case |
| 21 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sent | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 there | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 there | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | shall | the shadow = shadow | first, there property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the shadow | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | send in a quote | future · passive | you | prison | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to prison=Destination |
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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