Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 116
We converse in company with those we meet, as we converse with our fellow-travellers in a stage-coach, on a journey; we know nothing of them, and perhaps all the while we are incommoding one another, and each is wishing himself or his neighbor away.
Who acts: we, each · What happens: meet, converse, know, incommode, wish · To what, where: stage coach, nothing, one, Sweetly
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, each), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 converse | nsubj |
| 2 | converse | converse | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 company | case |
| 4 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 converse | obl |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 those | case |
| 6 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 company | nmod |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 meet | nsubj |
| 8 | meet | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 those | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 converse | punct |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 converse | mark |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 converse | nsubj |
| 12 | converse | converse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 meet | conj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 travellers | case |
| 14 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 travellers | nmod:poss |
| 15 | fellow | fellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 travellers | amod |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 fellow | punct |
| 17 | travellers | traveller | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 converse | obl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 coach | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 coach | det |
| 20 | stage | stage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 coach | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 stage | punct |
| 22 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 converse | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 journey | punct |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 journey | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 journey | det |
| 26 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 converse | obl |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 know | punct |
| 28 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 know | nsubj |
| 29 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 converse | parataxis |
| 30 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 29 know | obj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 them | case |
| 32 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 nothing | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 incommoding | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 incommoding | cc |
| 35 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 36 all | advmod |
| 36 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 41 incommoding | det:predet |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 incommoding | det |
| 38 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 41 incommoding | mark |
| 39 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 41 incommoding | nsubj |
| 40 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 incommoding | aux |
| 41 | incommoding | incommode | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 converse | conj |
| 42 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 41 incommoding | obj |
| 43 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 42 one | fixed |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 wishing | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 wishing | cc |
| 46 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 48 wishing | nsubj |
| 47 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 48 wishing | aux |
| 48 | wishing | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 41 incommoding | conj |
| 49 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 48 wishing | obj |
| 50 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 52 neighbor | cc |
| 51 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 52 neighbor | nmod:poss |
| 52 | neighbor | neighbor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 himself | conj |
| 53 | away | away | ADV | _ | 48 wishing | advmod |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 converse | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | present | we | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | converse speech: other | present | we | a stage coach | with our fellow travellers; on a journey | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with traveller=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | know | present | we | nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | incommode | present · progressive | we | one | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | wish | present · progressive | each | Sweetly | away property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot himself=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: «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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