Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 66

"Something rather unusual," said the shadow; "but you are yourself an uncommon man, and you know very well that I have followed in your footsteps ever since your childhood.

Who acts: shadow, you · What happens: say, be, know, follow · To what, where: yourself, shadow, footsteps · 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 (shadow, you), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 unusual	punct
2	Something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 unusual	nsubj
3	rather	rather	ADV	_	4 unusual	advmod
4	unusual	unusual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 unusual	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 unusual	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 unusual	parataxis
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 shadow	det
9	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 yourself	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 yourself	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 yourself	cc
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 yourself	nsubj
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 yourself	cop
15	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 unusual	obl
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 man	det
17	uncommon	uncommon	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 man	amod
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 yourself	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 know	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 know	cc
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 know	nsubj
22	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 unusual	parataxis
23	very	very	ADV	_	24 well	advmod
24	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 know	advmod
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 followed	mark
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 followed	nsubj:pass
27	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 followed	aux
28	followed	follow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 know	advcl
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 footsteps	case
30	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 footsteps	nmod:poss
31	footsteps	footstep	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 followed	obl
32	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	28 followed	advmod
33	since	since	ADP	_	35 childhood	case
34	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 childhood	nmod:poss
35	childhood	childhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 followed	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 unusual	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the shadow					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	you	yourself				tree rules
3	know in a quote	present	you				well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	follow in a quote	present · perfect · passive		the shadow = shadow	your footsteps	since your childhood; ever		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in footstep=Trajectory

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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