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title: But the fellow-traveller said he did not require anything in return,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But the fellow-traveller said he did not require anything in return, excepting the sword which the showman wore by his side. Who acts: fellow traveller, traveller, showman. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, with its dependency
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 6

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But the fellow-traveller said he did not require anything in return, excepting the sword which the showman wore by his side.

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**Who acts:** fellow traveller, traveller, showman · **What happens:** say, not require, except, wear · **To what, where:** anything, return, sword · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fellow traveller, traveller, showman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg27200:197:6
# text = But the fellow-traveller said he did not require anything in return, excepting the sword which the showman wore by his side.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	fellow	fellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	traveller	traveller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	require	require	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
11	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	10	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	excepting	except	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	obj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	showman	showman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the fellow traveller |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **require** | past · do-support | traveller | anything |  | return |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme anything=Precondition |
| 3 | **except** | gerund | traveller *not said here* | the sword |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **wear** | past | the showman | the sword |  |  |  | by showman's side | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent which=Source |

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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.

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**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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