Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bird of Popular Song, sentence 4

But we sit in the warm room, by the hot stove, and talk about the old times.

Who acts: we · What happens: sit, talk · To what, where: warm room

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bird of Popular Song. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 sit	cc
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 sit	nsubj
3	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 room	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 room	det
6	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 room	amod
7	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sit	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 stove	punct
9	by	by	ADP	_	12 stove	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 stove	det
11	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 stove	amod
12	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sit	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 talk	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 talk	cc
15	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sit	conj
16	about	about	ADP	_	19 times	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 times	det
18	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 times	amod
19	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 talk	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	present	we			the warm room		by the hot stove	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in room=Location
2	talk	infinitive	we not said here				time		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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