Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 188
He is also called Ole-Luk-Oie but he never visits any one but once, and when he does come, he takes him away on his horse, and tells him stories as they ride along.
Who acts: Ole, stories · What happens: call, not visit, come, take away, tell, ride along · To what, where: Ole, one, Oie, stories · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ole, stories), 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 | 4 called | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 called | aux:pass |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 4 called | advmod |
| 4 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | Ole | Ole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 called | xcomp |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Luk | punct |
| 7 | Luk | Luk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Ole | conj |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Oie | punct |
| 9 | Oie | Oie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Ole | conj |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 visits | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 visits | nsubj |
| 12 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 13 visits | advmod |
| 13 | visits | visit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 called | conj |
| 14 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 one | det |
| 15 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 visits | obj |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 once | cc |
| 17 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 15 one | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 come | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 come | cc |
| 20 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 come | advmod |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 come | nsubj |
| 22 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 come | aux |
| 23 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 called | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 takes | punct |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 takes | nsubj |
| 26 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 come | parataxis |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 takes | obj |
| 28 | away | away | ADV | _ | 26 takes | advmod |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 horse | case |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 horse | nmod:poss |
| 31 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 takes | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 tells | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 tells | cc |
| 34 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 takes | conj |
| 35 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 tells | iobj |
| 36 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 tells | obj |
| 37 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 39 ride | mark |
| 38 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 ride | nsubj |
| 39 | ride | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 tells | advcl |
| 40 | along | along | ADV | _ | 39 ride | advmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present · passive | Ole | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | not visit | present | Ole | any one | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | come | present · do-support | Ole | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | take away | present | Ole | Oie | on Ole's horse; away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | present | Ole not said here | stories | Ole | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient story=Topic | |||
| 6 | ride along | present | stories = story | along property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=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: «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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