Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 159
He would have been glad to call out "Lady Halle, Lady Halle, unlock the mountain.
Who acts: castle · What happens: be, call out, unlock · To what, where: mountain · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (castle), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 glad | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 glad | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 glad | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 glad | cop |
| 5 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 call | mark |
| 7 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 glad | advcl |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 call | compound:prt |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Halle | punct |
| 10 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Halle | compound |
| 11 | Halle | Halle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 call | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Lady | punct |
| 13 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Halle | conj |
| 14 | Halle | Halle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Lady | flat |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 unlock | punct |
| 16 | unlock | unlock | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 call | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 mountain | det |
| 18 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 unlock | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 glad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | would · perfect | castle | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | call out speech: assert | to-infinitive | castle not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | unlock in a quote | infinitive | castle not said here | the mountain | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mountain=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.
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