Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Holger Danske, sentence 5

The Danish and the Swedish flags wave, and Danes and Swedes say, "Good-day," and "Thank you" to each other, not with cannons, but with a friendly shake of the hand; and they exchange white bread and biscuits with each other, because foreign articles taste the best.

Who acts: Danish, Danes, foreign articles · What happens: wave, say, thank, exchange, taste · To what, where: you, white bread, best · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Holger Danske. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Danish, Danes, foreign articles), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Danish	det
2	Danish	danish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wave	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 wave	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 flags	det
5	Swedish	Swedish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 flags	amod
6	flags	flag	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 wave	nsubj
7	wave	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 say	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 say	cc
10	Danes	Dane	PROPN	Number=Plur	13 say	nsubj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 Swedes	cc
12	Swedes	Swede	PROPN	Number=Plur	10 Danes	conj
13	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 wave	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 day	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 day	punct
16	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 day	amod
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 Good	punct
18	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 say	ccomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 day	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 day	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 Thank	cc
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 Thank	punct
23	Thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 say	conj
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 Thank	obj
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 Thank	punct
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 each	case
27	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	23 Thank	obl
28	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 each	fixed
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 cannons	punct
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 cannons	advmod
31	with	with	ADP	_	32 cannons	case
32	cannons	cannon	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 Thank	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 shake	punct
34	but	but	CCONJ	_	38 shake	cc
35	with	with	ADP	_	38 shake	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 shake	det
37	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 shake	amod
38	shake	shake	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wave	parataxis
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 hand	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 hand	det
41	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 shake	nmod
42	;	;	PUNCT	_	45 exchange	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 exchange	cc
44	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 exchange	nsubj
45	exchange	exchange	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 wave	conj
46	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 bread	amod
47	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 exchange	obj
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 biscuits	cc
49	biscuits	biscuit	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 bread	conj
50	with	with	ADP	_	51 each	case
51	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	45 exchange	obl
52	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 each	fixed
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 taste	punct
54	because	because	SCONJ	_	57 taste	mark
55	foreign	foreign	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 articles	amod
56	articles	article	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 taste	nsubj
57	taste	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 exchange	conj
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 best	det
59	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	57 taste	obj
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 wave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	wave	present	the Danish				vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	Danes and Swedes				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	thank speech: thank in a quote	present	Danes and Swedes not said here		you	to each; with cannons	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
4	exchange	present	Danes = dane	white bread and biscuits		with each	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent bread=Theme with each=Co-Agent
5	taste	present	foreign articles	the best			vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme good=Attribute

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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