Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 89

This was done, it might be from pride, or perhaps that the new shadow might cling to him, but the prostrate shadow remained quite quiet and at rest, in order that it might listen, for it wanted to know how a shadow could be sent away by its master, and become a man itself. "

Who acts: arm, new shadow, prostrate shadow, master · What happens: do, be, cling, remain, listen, want · To what, where: This, pride, man, order, 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 (arm, new shadow, prostrate shadow, master), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 done	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 done	aux:pass
3	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 done	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 pride	nsubj
6	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 pride	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 pride	cop
8	from	from	ADP	_	9 pride	case
9	pride	pride	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 done	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 cling	punct
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 cling	cc
12	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	18 cling	advmod
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 cling	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 shadow	det
15	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 shadow	amod
16	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 cling	nsubj
17	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 cling	aux
18	cling	cling	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 done	advcl
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 cling	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 remained	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 remained	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 shadow	det
24	prostrate	prostrate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 shadow	amod
25	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 remained	nsubj
26	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 done	parataxis
27	quite	quite	ADV	_	28 quiet	advmod
28	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 remained	xcomp
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 rest	cc
30	at	at	ADP	_	31 rest	case
31	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 quiet	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 order	punct
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 order	case
34	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 remained	obl
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 listen	mark
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 listen	nsubj
37	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 listen	aux
38	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 order	acl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 wanted	punct
40	for	for	SCONJ	_	42 wanted	mark
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 wanted	nsubj
42	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 listen	ccomp
43	to	to	PART	_	44 know	mark
44	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 wanted	xcomp
45	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	50 sent	advmod
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 shadow	det
47	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 sent	nsubj:pass
48	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 sent	aux
49	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	50 sent	aux:pass
50	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	44 know	ccomp
51	away	away	ADV	_	50 sent	advmod
52	by	by	ADP	_	54 master	case
53	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 master	nmod:poss
54	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 sent	obl
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 become	punct
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 become	cc
57	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 done	advcl
58	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	59 man	det
59	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 become	xcomp
60	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	59 man	nmod:unmarked
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 done	punct
62	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 done	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past · passive		This				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	is	might	arm			pride		tree rules
3	cling	might	the new shadow		man		perhaps property	vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to he=Co-Theme
4	remain	past	the prostrate shadow			order	quiet property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in order=Location
5	listen	might	arm	order not said here				tree rules
6	want	past	arm					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
7	know not said to happen	to-infinitive	arm not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
8	send away	could · passive	arm's master	a shadow			away property	vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
9	become	infinitive		a man arm				vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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