The Yellow Fairy Book, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25), sentence 28
How shall we travel about together without being odious the one to the other?’
Who acts: we · What happens: travel, be
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 travel | advmod |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 travel | aux |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 travel | nsubj |
| 4 | travel | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 together | case |
| 6 | together | together | ADV | _ | 4 travel | obl |
| 7 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 9 odious | mark |
| 8 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 odious | cop |
| 9 | odious | odious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 one | amod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 one | det |
| 11 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 travel | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 other | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 other | det |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 one | nmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 travel | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 travel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | shall | we | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about together=Trajectory | |||||
| 2 | is | gerund | odious property | tree rules |
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: «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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