Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 69
I know that you have now another shadow; do I owe you anything?
Who acts: I, you · What happens: know, have, owe · To what, where: shadow, anything, you · 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 (I, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 know | nsubj |
| 2 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 have | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 have | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 know | ccomp |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 have | advmod |
| 7 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 shadow | det |
| 8 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 have | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 owe | punct |
| 10 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 owe | aux |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 owe | nsubj |
| 12 | owe | owe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 know | parataxis |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 owe | obj |
| 14 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 12 owe | obj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | have | present | you | another shadow | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shadow=Patient | |||
| 3 | owe | present · do-support | I | anything | you | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent you=Goal anything=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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