Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 34

The door is only ajar; the shadow ought to be clever enough to step in and look about him, and then to come back and tell me what he has seen.

Who acts: door, shadow, man · What happens: be, step in, look, come back, tell, see · To what, where: me · 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 (door, shadow, man), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 door	det
2	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ajar	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 ajar	cop
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 ajar	advmod
5	ajar	ajar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 clever	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 shadow	det
8	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 clever	nsubj
9	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 clever	aux
10	to	to	PART	_	12 clever	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 clever	cop
12	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ajar	conj
13	enough	enough	ADV	_	12 clever	advmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 step	mark
15	step	step	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 clever	advcl
16	in	in	ADV	_	15 step	advmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 look	cc
18	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 step	conj
19	about	about	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 look	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 come	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 come	cc
23	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 come	advmod
24	to	to	PART	_	25 come	mark
25	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 ajar	parataxis
26	back	back	ADV	_	25 come	advmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 tell	cc
28	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 come	conj
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 tell	iobj
30	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	33 seen	obj
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 seen	nsubj
32	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 seen	aux
33	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 tell	ccomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 ajar	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the door			ajar property	tree rules
2	is	ought	the shadow			clever, enough property	tree rules
3	step in	to-infinitive	the shadow not said here				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	look	infinitive	the shadow not said here			about man	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about he=Theme
5	come back	to-infinitive			then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	tell speech: assert	infinitive		me			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
7	see	present · perfect	man				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus

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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