Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, sentence 88
But the traveller shook his head, and said gently and kindly, "No: my time is up now; I have only paid my debt to you.
Who acts: traveller · What happens: shake, say, be, pay · To what, where: head, debt, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (traveller), 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 | _ | 4 shook | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 traveller | det |
| 3 | traveller | traveller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shook | nsubj |
| 4 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 head | nmod:poss |
| 6 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shook | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 shook | conj |
| 10 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 9 said | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 kindly | cc |
| 12 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 10 gently | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 No | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 No | punct |
| 15 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 time | det |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 No | punct |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 time | nmod:poss |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 up | cop |
| 20 | up | up | ADV | _ | 18 time | nmod |
| 21 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 up | advmod |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 paid | punct |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 paid | nsubj |
| 24 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 paid | aux |
| 25 | only | only | ADV | _ | 26 paid | advmod |
| 26 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 shook | conj |
| 27 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 debt | nmod:poss |
| 28 | debt | debt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 paid | obj |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 you | case |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 paid | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | past | the traveller | traveller's head | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the traveller not said here | time | gently property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | now | up property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | pay in a quote | present · perfect | the traveller = traveller | my debt | you | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent debt=Asset |
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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