Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Windmill, sentence 16

They are two, and yet one; they each call the other 'My half.'

Who acts: rules, one · What happens: be, call · To what, where: two, other half · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Windmill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rules, one), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 two	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 two	cop
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 call	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 call	cc
6	yet	yet	ADV	_	7 one	advmod
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 call	nsubj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 call	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 call	nsubj
10	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	11 call	advmod
11	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 two	parataxis
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 half	det
13	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 half	amod
14	'	'	PUNCT	_	16 half	punct
15	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 half	nmod:poss
16	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	11 call	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 call	punct
18	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 call	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	rules = rule	two					tree rules
2	call	present	one	My other half					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent half=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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