Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 99
"I found myself in an ante-room," said the shadow. "
Who acts: shadow · What happens: find, say · To what, where: shadow, ante room · 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 (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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 found | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 found | nsubj |
| 3 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 4 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 found | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 room | case |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 room | det |
| 7 | ante | ante | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 room | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 ante | punct |
| 9 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 found | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 found | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 found | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 shadow | det |
| 14 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find in a quote | past | the shadow = shadow | the shadow = shadow | a ante room | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Topic | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the shadow | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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