Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 6
But the fellow-traveller said he did not require anything in return, excepting the sword which the showman wore by his side.
Who acts: fellow traveller, traveller, showman · What happens: say, not require, except, wear · To what, where: anything, return, sword · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fellow traveller, traveller, showman), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 said | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 traveller | det |
| 3 | fellow | fellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 traveller | amod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 fellow | punct |
| 5 | traveller | traveller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 require | nsubj |
| 8 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 require | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 require | advmod |
| 10 | require | require | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 11 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 require | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 return | case |
| 13 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 anything | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 excepting | punct |
| 15 | excepting | except | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 require | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sword | det |
| 17 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 excepting | obj |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 wore | obj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 showman | det |
| 20 | showman | showman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 wore | nsubj |
| 21 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 sword | acl:relcl |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 side | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 side | nmod:poss |
| 24 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 wore | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the fellow traveller | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not require | past · do-support | traveller | anything | return | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme anything=Precondition | |||
| 3 | except | gerund | traveller not said here | the sword | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | wear | past | the showman | the sword | by showman's side | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent which=Source |
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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