--- title: "They are lovers," he replied; "they will go and live in the same ke… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "They are lovers," he replied; "they will go and live in the same kennel by-and-by, and gnaw at the same bone. Who acts: drops, lovers. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Man, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/169/46/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Snow Man](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/169/) / 46 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 46 "They are lovers," he replied; "they will go and live in the same kennel by-and-by, and gnaw at the same bone. **Who acts:** drops, lovers · **What happens:** be, reply, go, live, gnaw · **To what, where:** lovers, same kennel · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (drops, lovers), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:169:46 # text = "They are lovers," he replied; "they will go and live in the same kennel by-and-by, and gnaw at the same bone. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 lovers lover NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ; ; PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 ccomp _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 kennel kennel NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 20 by by ADP IN _ 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 by by ADP IN _ 20 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 gnaw gnaw VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 28 at at ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 bone bone NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | drops *= drop* | lovers | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | lovers | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **go** *in a quote* | future | drops *= drop* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **live** *in a quote* | infinitive | drops *= drop* *not said here* | | | the same kennel | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in kennel=Location | | 5 | **gnaw** *in a quote* | present | | | | | | at the same bone | vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at bone=Patient | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/169/45/) - next →: [sentence 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/169/47/) - ↑ back to [The Snow Man](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/169/)