Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Dream of Little Tuk, sentence 1

Ah! yes, that was little Tuk: in reality his name was not Tuk, but that was what he called himself before he could speak plain: he meant it for Charles, and it is all well enough if one does but know it.

Who acts: that, name, he, his · What happens: be, not be, call, speak, mean, know · To what, where: little Tuk, Tuk, reality, himself, plain, name · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Dream of Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, name, he, his), 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	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	8 Tuk	discourse
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Ah	punct
3	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	1 Ah	discourse
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ah	punct
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 Tuk	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 Tuk	cop
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Tuk	amod
8	Tuk	Tuk	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 Tuk	punct
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 reality	case
11	reality	reality	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 Tuk	obl
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 name	nmod:poss
13	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 Tuk	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 Tuk	cop
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 Tuk	advmod
16	Tuk	Tuk	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Tuk	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 what	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 what	cc
19	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 what	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 what	cop
21	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 Tuk	appos
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 called	nsubj
23	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 what	acl:relcl
24	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 called	obj
25	before	before	SCONJ	_	28 speak	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 speak	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 speak	aux
28	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 called	advcl
29	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 speak	obj
30	:	:	PUNCT	_	32 meant	punct
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 meant	nsubj
32	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 Tuk	parataxis
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 meant	obj
34	for	for	ADP	_	35 Charles	case
35	Charles	Charles	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 meant	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 know	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 know	cc
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 well	nsubj
39	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 well	cop
40	all	all	ADV	_	41 well	advmod
41	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	47 know	advmod
42	enough	enough	ADV	_	41 well	advmod
43	if	if	SCONJ	_	45 does	mark
44	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 does	nsubj
45	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 know	aux
46	but	but	CCONJ	_	47 know	cc
47	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 meant	conj
48	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 know	obj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 Tuk	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	that	little Tuk and Tuk			tree rules
2	not is a	past	his name	Tuk	reality		tree rules
3	is a	past	that	little Tuk and Tuk			tree rules
4	call	past	he	himself = he			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient
5	speak speech: other	could	he	plain			tree rules
6	mean	past	he	plain		for Charles	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot it=Theme for charles=Attribute
7	is	present	name			all, enough, well property	tree rules
8	know	present · do-support	he not said here	name			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
9	name		his = he				nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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