Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures, sentence 11

He has neither wife nor children, and he goes out into company every evening.

Who acts: man · What happens: have, go out · To what, where: wife, company

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	4 wife	cc:preconj
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj
5	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	6 children	cc
6	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wife	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 goes	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 goes	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 goes	nsubj
10	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 has	conj
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 goes	compound:prt
12	into	into	ADP	_	13 company	case
13	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 goes	obl
14	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	15 evening	det
15	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 goes	obl:unmarked
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 has	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	man	wife nor children					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient
2	go out	present	man			company	evening		vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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