Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 9
I used to be called a complete lark.
Who acts: I · What happens: use, call · To what, where: complete lark · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bottle Neck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 used | nsubj |
| 2 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 called | mark |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 called | aux:pass |
| 5 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 used | xcomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 lark | det |
| 7 | complete | complete | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 lark | amod |
| 8 | lark | lark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 called | xcomp |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past | I | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | call | to-infinitive · passive | I not said here | a complete lark | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V» |
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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