Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 47

He made himself little, and he made himself tall; but there was no shadow, and no shadow came.

Who acts: music, shadow · What happens: make, be, come · To what, where: music

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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 made	obj
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 made	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 made	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 made	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 made	nsubj
8	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 made	conj
9	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 made	obj
10	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 made	xcomp
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 was	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 was	cc
13	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	14 was	expl
14	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 made	parataxis
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 shadow	det
16	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 was	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 came	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 came	cc
19	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	20 shadow	det
20	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 came	nsubj
21	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 made	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	past	music	music		little property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Product
2	make	past	music	music		tall property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Product
3	be	past	no shadow		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come	past	no shadow				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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