Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 35

You could make yourself useful in this way," said he, jokingly; "be so good as to step in now, will you?" and then he nodded to the shadow, and the shadow nodded in return. "

Who acts: You, man, shadow · What happens: make, say, be, step, nod · To what, where: yourself, shadow · 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 (You, man, 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 make	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 make	aux
3	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 make	obj
5	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 make	xcomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 way	case
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 way	det
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 useful	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 make	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 make	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 make	parataxis
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 jokingly	punct
14	jokingly	jokingly	ADV	_	11 said	advmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 good	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 good	punct
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 good	cop
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 good	advmod
19	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 make	conj
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 step	mark
21	to	to	PART	_	22 step	mark
22	step	step	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 good	csubj
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 now	case
24	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 step	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 will	punct
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 make	conj
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 will	nsubj
28	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 make	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 make	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 nodded	cc
31	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 nodded	advmod
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 nodded	nsubj
33	nodded	nod	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 make	conj
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 shadow	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 shadow	det
36	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 nodded	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 nodded	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 nodded	cc
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 shadow	det
40	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 nodded	nsubj
41	nodded	nod	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 nodded	conj
42	in	in	ADP	_	43 return	case
43	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 nodded	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 make	punct
45	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	make	could	You	yourself			useful property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	man				jokingly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	infinitive	You not said here				good property	tree rules
4	step	to-infinitive						vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in now=Trajectory
5	nod in a quote	past	man		the shadow	then		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to shadow=Recipient
6	nod in a quote	participle	the shadow				in return	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in return=Theme

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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