Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 82
"Make yourself quite easy," said the learned man; "I will tell no one who you really are.
Who acts: learned man · What happens: make, say, learn, tell · To what, where: yourself, one · 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 (learned man), 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 | _ | 2 Make | punct |
| 2 | Make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 3 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 Make | obj |
| 4 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 5 easy | advmod |
| 5 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Make | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Make | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Make | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 10 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 man | amod |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 tell | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 tell | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 tell | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 tell | aux |
| 16 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | conj |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 one | det |
| 18 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tell | obj |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 are | nsubj |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 are | nsubj |
| 21 | really | really | ADV | _ | 22 are | advmod |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 one | acl:relcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make in a quote | infinitive | yourself | easy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset yourself=Product | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the learned man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | learn | participle | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert in a quote | future | the learned man = man | no one | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Recipient |
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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