Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 84
"Between man and a shadow," said the shadow; for he could not help saying so.
Who acts: man · What happens: say, not help · To what, where: shadow · 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 (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 | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | Between | between | ADP | _ | 3 man | case |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 shadow | cc |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 shadow | det |
| 6 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 man | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 man | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 man | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 shadow | det |
| 11 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 help | punct |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 help | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 help | nsubj |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 help | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 help | advmod |
| 17 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 18 | saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 help | xcomp |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 saying | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | man and a shadow | the shadow | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not help | could | man | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert not said to happen | gerund | man not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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