Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 48
He said, "Hem, a-hem;" but it was all useless.
Who acts: music, shadow · What happens: say, be · 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 (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 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Hem | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Hem | punct |
| 5 | Hem | hem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hem | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 hem | det |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 a | punct |
| 9 | hem | hem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Hem | conj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 useless | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 useless | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 useless | cc |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 useless | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 useless | cop |
| 15 | all | all | ADV | _ | 16 useless | advmod |
| 16 | useless | useless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 said | ccomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | music | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | shadow | all, useless property | tree rules |
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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