Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 83
Here is my hand,--I promise, and a word is sufficient between man and man."
Who acts: hand, I, word · What happens: be, promise
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 (hand, I, word), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Here | cop |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 hand | nmod:poss |
| 4 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Here | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 promise | punct |
| 6 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 promise | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 promise | nsubj |
| 8 | promise | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hand | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sufficient | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sufficient | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 word | det |
| 12 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sufficient | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 sufficient | cop |
| 14 | sufficient | sufficient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 promise | conj |
| 15 | between | between | ADP | _ | 16 man | case |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sufficient | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 man | cc |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 man | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | my hand | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | promise speech: promise | present | I | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | a word | between man and man; sufficient 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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