Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 118
This is called drinking “Duus”: they are then, “Duus Brodre,” (thou brothers) and ever afterwards use the pronoun “thou,” to each other, it being regarded as more familiar than “De,” (you).
Who acts: acquaintances, thou · What happens: call, drink, be, brother, use, regard · To what, where: This, Duus, pronoun · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (acquaintances, thou), 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 called | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 called | aux:pass |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | drinking | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 called | xcomp |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Duus | punct |
| 6 | Duus | Duus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 drinking | obj |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Duus | punct |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 then | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 then | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 then | cop |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 use | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Duus | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Duus | punct |
| 14 | Duus | Duus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 then | conj |
| 15 | Brodre | Brodre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Duus | flat |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Duus | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Duus | punct |
| 18 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 20 brothers | punct |
| 19 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 20 brothers | nsubj |
| 20 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 Duus | appos |
| 21 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 20 brothers | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 use | cc |
| 23 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 25 use | advmod |
| 24 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 25 use | advmod |
| 25 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 called | parataxis |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 pronoun | det |
| 27 | pronoun | pronoun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 use | obj |
| 28 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 thou | punct |
| 29 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 27 pronoun | appos |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 thou | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 thou | punct |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 each | case |
| 33 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 25 use | obl |
| 34 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 each | fixed |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 regarded | punct |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 regarded | nsubj:pass |
| 37 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 38 regarded | aux:pass |
| 38 | regarded | regard | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 use | conj |
| 39 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 41 familiar | mark |
| 40 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 41 familiar | amod |
| 41 | familiar | familiar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 regarded | xcomp |
| 42 | than | than | ADP | _ | 44 De | case |
| 43 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 44 De | punct |
| 44 | De | De | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 familiar | obl |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 familiar | punct |
| 46 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 41 familiar | punct |
| 47 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 48 you | punct |
| 48 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 41 familiar | appos |
| 49 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 48 you | punct |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | present · passive | This | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | drink | gerund | Duus | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duus=Patient | |||||
| 3 | is | present | acquaintances = acquaintance | then property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | brother | thou | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | use | present | the pronoun | ever | to each; afterwards property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pronoun=Patient | |||
| 6 | regard | gerund · passive | pronoun | familiar property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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: «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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