Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 90
Do you know," said the shadow, "that in the house opposite to you lived the most glorious creature in the world?
Who acts: you, shadow · What happens: know, say, live · To what, where: shadow, glorious creature, house opposite · 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 (you, shadow), 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 know | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 shadow | det |
| 8 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 shadow | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 shadow | punct |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 lived | nsubj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 opposite | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 opposite | det |
| 14 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 opposite | compound |
| 15 | opposite | opposite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lived | obl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 you | case |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 lived | nsubj |
| 18 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 shadow | acl:relcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 creature | det |
| 20 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 21 glorious | advmod |
| 21 | glorious | glorious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 creature | amod |
| 22 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lived | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 world | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 world | det |
| 25 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 creature | nmod |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present · do-support | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the shadow | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | live | past | the shadow | the glorious creature | the house opposite | in the world | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme creature=Location |
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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