Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 4

She was an honorable matron; but Agent Fabs, whom she used to call "Flabs," declared that our aunt was stage-struck.

Who acts: word, Flabs · What happens: be, use, call, declare, strike · To what, where: honorable matron, aunt · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Our Aunt. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (word, Flabs), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 matron	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 matron	cop
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 matron	det
4	honorable	honorable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 matron	amod
5	matron	matron	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 Fabs	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 Fabs	cc
8	Agent	agent	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Fabs	compound
9	Fabs	fab	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 matron	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 used	punct
11	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 used	obj
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 used	nsubj
13	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 matron	acl:relcl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 call	mark
15	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 used	xcomp
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 Flabs	punct
17	Flabs	flab	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 declared	nsubj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Flabs	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 Flabs	punct
20	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 call	advcl
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 struck	mark
22	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 aunt	nmod:poss
23	aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 struck	nsubj:pass
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 struck	aux:pass
25	stage	stage	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 struck	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 stage	punct
27	struck	strike	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 declared	advcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 matron	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past	word	a honorable matron but Agent Fabs	tree rules
2	use	past	word	a honorable matron but Agent Fabs	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent whom=Theme clause=Eventuality
3	call	to-infinitive	word not said here		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	declare speech: other	past	Flabs		vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
5	strike	past · passive		our aunt	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Instrument

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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