Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 44
All the people at home, in his country, knew this story; and when he returned, and related his own adventures, they would say it was only an imitation; and he had no desire for such things to be said of him.
Who acts: people, music, story · What happens: know, return, relate, say, be, have · To what, where: story, own adventures, imitation, desire · 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 (people, music, story), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 people | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 people | det |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 knew | nsubj |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 home | case |
| 5 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 people | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 country | punct |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 country | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 country | nmod:poss |
| 9 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 people | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 people | punct |
| 11 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 story | det |
| 13 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 knew | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 say | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 say | cc |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 returned | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 returned | nsubj |
| 18 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 say | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 related | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 related | cc |
| 21 | related | relate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 returned | conj |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 adventures | nmod:poss |
| 23 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 adventures | amod |
| 24 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 related | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 returned | punct |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 say | nsubj |
| 27 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 say | aux |
| 28 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 knew | conj |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 imitation | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 imitation | cop |
| 31 | only | only | ADV | _ | 33 imitation | advmod |
| 32 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 imitation | det |
| 33 | imitation | imitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 say | ccomp |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 had | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 had | cc |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 had | nsubj |
| 37 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 knew | parataxis |
| 38 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 39 desire | det |
| 39 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 had | obj |
| 40 | for | for | ADP | _ | 42 things | case |
| 41 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 things | amod |
| 42 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 desire | nmod |
| 43 | to | to | PART | _ | 45 said | mark |
| 44 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 45 said | aux:pass |
| 45 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 things | acl |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 him | case |
| 47 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 said | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | all people at home and music's country | this story | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | return | past | music | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | relate | past | music not said here | music's own adventures | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adventure=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | would | people | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a | past | story | a imitation | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | have | past | music | no desire | for such things | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desire=Patient | |||
| 7 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive · passive | music not said here | of music | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S» | ||||
| 8 | adventure | music | nom adventure «act 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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