Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 21

They were telling each other, with a confidential interchange of ideas, where they had been during the day.

Who acts: others · What happens: tell, be · To what, where: each · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (others), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 telling	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 telling	aux
3	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	3 telling	obj
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 each	fixed
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 interchange	punct
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 interchange	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 interchange	det
9	confidential	confidential	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 interchange	amod
10	interchange	interchange	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 telling	obl:unmarked
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 ideas	case
12	ideas	idea	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 interchange	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 day	punct
14	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	20 day	advmod
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 day	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 day	aux
17	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 day	cop
18	during	during	ADP	_	20 day	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 day	det
20	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ideas	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 telling	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · progressive	others = other	each				with a confidential interchange of ideas and the day	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent each=Recipient
2	is	past · perfect	others = other				during the day		tree rules

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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