Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 120
And so we often pass each other in the world when we meet, as did these two, even while together in the same town.
Who acts: we · What happens: pass, meet, do · To what, where: each, world, two
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bottle Neck. 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 pass | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 pass | advmod |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 pass | nsubj |
| 4 | often | often | ADV | _ | 5 pass | advmod |
| 5 | pass | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 5 pass | obj |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 each | fixed |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 world | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 world | det |
| 10 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pass | obl |
| 11 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 13 meet | mark |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 meet | nsubj |
| 13 | meet | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 pass | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 did | punct |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 did | mark |
| 16 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 meet | ccomp |
| 17 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 18 two | det |
| 18 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 did | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 together | punct |
| 20 | even | even | ADV | _ | 22 together | advmod |
| 21 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 22 together | mark |
| 22 | together | together | ADV | _ | 16 did | parataxis |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 town | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 town | det |
| 25 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 town | amod |
| 26 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 together | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pass | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | present | we | each | the world | often property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent each=Theme in world=Destination | ||
| 2 | meet | present | we | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | do | past | we not said here | this two | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=Eventuality |
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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