Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole the Tower-keeper, sentence 15

He loved neither the English governess novels nor the French ones, which he called a mixture of empty wind and raisin-stalks: he wanted biographies, and descriptions of the wonders of, the world.

Who acts: blacking · What happens: love, call, want, describe, wonder · To what, where: French ones, biographies, wonders, world · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole the Tower-keeper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (blacking), 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	2 loved	nsubj
2	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	7 novels	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 novels	det
5	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 novels	amod
6	governess	governess	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 novels	compound
7	novels	novel	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 loved	conj
8	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	11 ones	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ones	det
10	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 ones	amod
11	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 novels	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 called	punct
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 called	obj
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 called	nsubj
15	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 ones	acl:relcl
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 mixture	det
17	mixture	mixture	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 called	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 wind	case
19	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 wind	amod
20	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 mixture	nmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 stalks	cc
22	raisin	raisin	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 stalks	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 raisin	punct
24	stalks	stalk	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 wind	conj
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 wanted	punct
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 wanted	nsubj
27	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 loved	parataxis
28	biographies	biography	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 wanted	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 descriptions	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 descriptions	cc
31	descriptions	description	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 wanted	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 wonders	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 wonders	det
34	wonders	wonder	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 descriptions	nmod
35	of	of	ADP	_	38 world	case
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 of	punct
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 world	det
38	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 wonders	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 loved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	love	past	blacking			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer
2	call	past	blacking	the French ones		vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme mixture=Result
3	want	past	blacking	biographies	descriptions of the wonders of the world obl	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot biography=Theme
4	describe			the wonders of the world		nom description «communication transitive»: of=patient
5	wonder			the world		nom wonder «feeling transitive»: of=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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