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title: The learned man from the cold lands--he was a young man, and seemed… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The learned man from the cold lands--he was a young man, and seemed to be a clever man--sat in a glowing oven; it took effect on him, he became quite meagre--even his shadow shrunk in, for the sun had also an effect on it. Who acts: man, learned man, it, sun. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» b
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 5

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The learned man from the cold lands--he was a young man, and seemed to be a clever man--sat in a glowing oven; it took effect on him, he became quite meagre--even his shadow shrunk in, for the sun had also an effect on it.

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**Who acts:** man, learned man, it, sun · **What happens:** learn, be, seem, sit, glow, take · **To what, where:** young man, clever man, glowing oven, effect, shadow

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» 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, learned man, it, sun), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg1597:23:5
# text = The learned man from the cold lands--he was a young man, and seemed to be a clever man--sat in a glowing oven; it took effect on him, he became quite meagre--even his shadow shrunk in, for the sun had also an effect on it.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	learned	learn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	glowing	glow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	amod	_	_
27	oven	oven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
31	effect	effect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
32	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
37	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	meagre	meagre	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	even	even	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
41	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	parataxis	_	_
43	shrunk	shrink	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	42	acl	_	_
44	in	in	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
46	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	49	mark	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nsubj	_	_
49	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
50	also	also	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
51	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	effect	effect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obj	_	_
53	on	on	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past | man | a young man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **seem** | past | the learned man from the cold lands and a young man |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | to-infinitive | the learned man from the cold lands and a young man *not said here* | a clever man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **sit** | past | the learned man from the cold lands and a young man *not said here* |  |  | a glowing oven |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in oven=Location |
| 6 | **glow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **take** | past | it | effect |  |  |  | on man | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent effect=Theme on he=Destination |
| 8 | **become** | past | man |  |  |  |  | meagre *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 9 | **shrink** | participle |  | man's shadow *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 10 | **have** | past | the sun | a effect |  | effect |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Patient |
| 11 | **shadow** |  | man |  |  |  |  |  | nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**Text:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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