Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 33

"I think my shadow is the only living thing to be seen opposite," said the learned man; "see how pleasantly it sits among the flowers.

Who acts: I, shadow, learned man, my · What happens: think, be, see, say, learn, sit · To what, where: only living thing, flowers · 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, shadow, learned man, my), 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 think	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 think	nsubj
3	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 said	ccomp
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 shadow	nmod:poss
5	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 thing	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 thing	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 thing	det
8	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 thing	amod
9	living	living	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 thing	amod
10	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 think	ccomp
11	to	to	PART	_	13 seen	mark
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 seen	aux:pass
13	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 thing	acl
14	opposite	opposite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 seen	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 think	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 think	punct
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 man	det
19	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 man	amod
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	nsubj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 see	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 see	punct
23	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 said	conj
24	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	25 pleasantly	advmod
25	pleasantly	pleasantly	ADV	_	27 sits	advmod
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 sits	nsubj
27	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 see	ccomp
28	among	among	ADP	_	30 flowers	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 flowers	det
30	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 sits	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other in a quote	present	I				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	my shadow	the only living thing			tree rules
3	see in a quote	to-infinitive · passive	I not said here			opposite property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»
4	say speech: assert	past	the learned man				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	learn	participle					vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	see in a quote	infinitive	the learned man not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	sit in a quote	present	shadow		the flowers	pleasantly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent among flower=Location
8	shadow in a quote		my				nom shadow «state 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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