Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 100

"Those are not clouds," replied his fellow-traveller; "they are mountains--large lofty mountains--on the tops of which we should be above the clouds, in the pure, free air.

Who acts: clouds, tops · What happens: not be, reply, be · To what, where: clouds, fellow traveller, mountains · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clouds, tops), 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	_	8 replied	punct
2	Those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 clouds	det
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 clouds	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 clouds	advmod
5	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 replied	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 clouds	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 clouds	punct
8	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 traveller	nmod:poss
10	fellow	fellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 traveller	amod
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 fellow	punct
12	traveller	traveller	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 replied	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 mountains	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 mountains	punct
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 mountains	nsubj
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 mountains	cop
17	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 replied	obl
18	--	--	PUNCT	_	21 mountains	punct
19	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 mountains	amod
20	lofty	lofty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 mountains	amod
21	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 mountains	conj
22	--	--	PUNCT	_	25 tops	punct
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 tops	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 tops	det
25	tops	top	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 mountains	conj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 which	case
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 clouds	nsubj
28	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 clouds	nsubj
29	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 clouds	aux
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 clouds	cop
31	above	above	ADP	_	33 clouds	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 clouds	det
33	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 tops	parataxis
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 air	punct
35	in	in	ADP	_	40 air	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 air	det
37	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 air	amod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 pure	punct
39	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 air	amod
40	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 clouds	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	not is a in a quote	present		that clouds		tree rules
2	reply speech: assert	past	that clouds	John's fellow traveller		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent traveller=Topic
3	is a in a quote	present	clouds = cloud	mountains and large lofty mountains and the tops		tree rules
4	is in a quote	should	the tops		the clouds and the pure free air	tree rules

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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