Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 80

"Yes, I will tell you all about it," said the shadow, sitting down; "but then you must promise me never to tell in this city, wherever you may meet me, that I have been your shadow.

Who acts: shadow, you · What happens: tell, say, sit down, promise, not tell, meet · To what, where: you, shadow, city · 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	_	6 tell	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 tell	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 tell	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	aux
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 tell	iobj
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 you	nmod:unmarked
9	about	about	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 all	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 shadow	det
15	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sitting	punct
17	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 said	advcl
18	down	down	ADV	_	17 sitting	advmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 promise	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 but	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 promise	cc
22	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 promise	advmod
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 promise	nsubj
24	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 promise	aux
25	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	parataxis
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 promise	obj
27	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	29 tell	advmod
28	to	to	PART	_	29 tell	mark
29	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 promise	parataxis
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 city	case
31	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 city	det
32	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 tell	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 meet	punct
34	wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	37 meet	advmod
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 meet	nsubj
36	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 meet	aux
37	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 tell	conj
38	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 meet	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 shadow	punct
40	that	that	SCONJ	_	45 shadow	mark
41	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	45 shadow	nsubj
42	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 shadow	aux
43	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	45 shadow	cop
44	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 shadow	nmod:poss
45	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 meet	parataxis
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	future	the shadow = shadow		you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	past	the shadow						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	sit down	gerund	the shadow not said here					down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	promise speech: promise in a quote	must	you		the shadow = shadow		then		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent i=Theme
5	not tell speech: assert in a quote	to-infinitive				this city			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	meet in a quote	may	you	the shadow = shadow				wherever property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Co-Agent
7	is a in a quote	present · perfect	the shadow = shadow	your shadow					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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