Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 242

"Poor shadow!" said the princess; "it is very unfortunate for him; it would really be a good deed to free him from his frail existence; and, indeed, when I think how often people take the part of the lower class against the higher, in these days, it would be policy to put him out of the way quietly."

Who acts: Poor shadow, chance, people, wedding · What happens: say, be, think, take, put, exist · To what, where: princess, good deed, part, policy, wedding, way · 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 (Poor shadow, chance, people, wedding), 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	_	3 shadow	punct
2	Poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 shadow	amod
3	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 shadow	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 shadow	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 princess	det
8	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 unfortunate	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 unfortunate	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 unfortunate	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 unfortunate	cop
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 unfortunate	advmod
14	unfortunate	unfortunate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 said	conj
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 unfortunate	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 deed	punct
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 deed	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 deed	aux
20	really	really	ADV	_	24 deed	advmod
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 deed	cop
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 deed	det
23	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 deed	amod
24	deed	deed	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	ccomp
25	to	to	PART	_	26 free	mark
26	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 deed	amod
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 free	nsubj
28	from	from	ADP	_	31 existence	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 existence	nmod:poss
30	frail	frail	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 existence	amod
31	existence	existence	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 free	obl
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 think	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 think	cc
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 and	punct
35	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	39 think	advmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 think	punct
37	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	39 think	advmod
38	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 think	nsubj
39	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 said	conj
40	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	41 often	advmod
41	often	often	ADV	_	43 take	advmod
42	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 take	nsubj
43	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 think	ccomp
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 part	det
45	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 take	obj
46	of	of	ADP	_	49 class	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 class	det
48	lower	low	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	49 class	amod
49	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 part	nmod
50	against	against	ADP	_	56 days	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 days	det
52	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	56 days	amod
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 days	punct
54	in	in	ADP	_	56 days	case
55	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	56 days	det
56	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 take	obl
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 policy	punct
58	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	61 policy	nsubj
59	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	61 policy	aux
60	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	61 policy	cop
61	policy	policy	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 take	parataxis
62	to	to	PART	_	63 put	mark
63	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	61 policy	acl
64	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	63 put	obj
65	out	out	ADP	_	68 way	case
66	of	of	ADP	_	68 way	case
67	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	68 way	det
68	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 put	obl
69	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	63 put	advmod
70	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
71	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Poor shadow	the princess				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent princess=Topic
2	is in a quote	present	chance				for wedding; unfortunate property	tree rules
3	is a in a quote	would	chance	a good deed				tree rules
4	think speech: other in a quote	present	Poor shadow = shadow				indeed property	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	take in a quote	present	people	the part of the lower class		day	often property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme
6	is a in a quote	would	chance	policy				tree rules
7	put in a quote	to-infinitive	people not said here	wedding	the way		quietly property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme out way=Destination
8	exist in a quote		wedding					nom existence «state intransitive»: 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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