Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 46
"They are lovers," he replied; "they will go and live in the same kennel by-and-by, and gnaw at the same bone.
Who acts: drops, lovers · What happens: be, reply, go, live, gnaw · To what, where: lovers, same kennel · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (drops, lovers), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 lovers | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 lovers | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 lovers | cop |
| 4 | lovers | lover | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 lovers | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 go | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 go | punct |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 go | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 go | aux |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 replied | ccomp |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 live | cc |
| 15 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 go | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 kennel | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 kennel | det |
| 18 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 kennel | amod |
| 19 | kennel | kennel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 live | obl |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 live | obl |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 by | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 by | cc |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 by | punct |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 by | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 gnaw | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 gnaw | cc |
| 27 | gnaw | gnaw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 replied | parataxis |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 bone | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 bone | det |
| 30 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 bone | amod |
| 31 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 gnaw | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | drops = drop | lovers | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | lovers | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go in a quote | future | drops = drop | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | live in a quote | infinitive | drops = drop not said here | the same kennel | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in kennel=Location | ||||
| 5 | gnaw in a quote | present | at the same bone | vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at bone=Patient |
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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