Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 173
One day the master said to the shadow, "We have grown up together from our childhood, and now that we have become travelling companions, shall we not drink to our good fellowship, and say thee and thou to each other?"
Who acts: master, We · What happens: say, grow up, become, not drink · To what, where: shadow, travelling companions, thee, each · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» 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 (master, 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 master | det |
| 4 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 shadow | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 shadow | det |
| 8 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 grown | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 grown | punct |
| 11 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 grown | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 grown | aux |
| 13 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 said | conj |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 grown | compound:prt |
| 15 | together | together | ADV | _ | 13 grown | advmod |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 childhood | case |
| 17 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 childhood | nmod:poss |
| 18 | childhood | childhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 grown | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 become | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 become | cc |
| 21 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 become | advmod |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 become | mark |
| 23 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 become | nsubj |
| 24 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 become | aux |
| 25 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 said | conj |
| 26 | travelling | travelling | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 companions | amod |
| 27 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 become | xcomp |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 drink | punct |
| 29 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 drink | aux |
| 30 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 drink | nsubj |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 drink | advmod |
| 32 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 become | parataxis |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 fellowship | case |
| 34 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 fellowship | nmod:poss |
| 35 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 fellowship | amod |
| 36 | fellowship | fellowship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 drink | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 say | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 say | cc |
| 39 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 drink | conj |
| 40 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 39 say | obj |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 thou | cc |
| 42 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 40 thee | conj |
| 43 | to | to | ADP | _ | 44 each | case |
| 44 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 39 say | obl |
| 45 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 each | fixed |
| 46 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 32 drink | punct |
| 47 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 drink | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | the master | the shadow | day | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to shadow=Recipient | |||
| 2 | grow up in a quote | present · perfect | We | from our childhood; together property | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent from childhood=Patient | ||||
| 3 | become in a quote | present · perfect | we | travelling companions | now | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 4 | not drink in a quote | shall | we | to our good fellowship | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | we not said here | thee | each | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent thou=Topic to each=Recipient |
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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