Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 46
In the evening he went out again on his balcony, taking care to place the light behind him; for he knew that a shadow always wants his master for a screen; but he could not entice him out.
Who acts: music, shadow · What happens: go out, take, know, want, not entice out · To what, where: balcony, care, master, heat
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 (music, 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 evening | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 evening | det |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 balcony | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 balcony | nmod:poss |
| 10 | balcony | balcony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 taking | punct |
| 12 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 went | advcl |
| 13 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 taking | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 place | case |
| 15 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 taking | obl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 light | det |
| 17 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 taking | obj |
| 18 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 taking | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 knew | punct |
| 21 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 23 knew | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 knew | nsubj |
| 23 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | parataxis |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 wants | mark |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 shadow | det |
| 26 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 wants | nsubj |
| 27 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 28 wants | advmod |
| 28 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 knew | advcl |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 master | nmod:poss |
| 30 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 wants | obj |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 screen | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 screen | det |
| 33 | screen | screen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 wants | obl |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 entice | punct |
| 35 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 39 entice | cc |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 entice | nsubj |
| 37 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 entice | aux |
| 38 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 39 entice | advmod |
| 39 | entice | entice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 went | conj |
| 40 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 entice | obj |
| 41 | out | out | ADP | _ | 39 entice | compound:prt |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | music | music's balcony | again; evening | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||
| 2 | take | gerund | music not said here | care | to place; behind music | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument care=Theme light=Destination | |||
| 3 | know | past | music | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | want | present | a shadow | music's master | for a screen; always property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot master=Theme | |||
| 5 | not entice out | could | music | heat | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
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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