Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 170
The crows and daws might have called out another name for her, which we know better.
Who acts: we · What happens: call out, know · To what, where: crows, name
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 crows | det |
| 2 | crows | crow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 called | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 daws | cc |
| 4 | daws | daw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 crows | conj |
| 5 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 called | aux |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 called | aux |
| 7 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 called | compound:prt |
| 9 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 name | det |
| 10 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 called | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 her | case |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 name | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 know | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 know | obj |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 know | nsubj |
| 16 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 name | acl:relcl |
| 17 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 know | ccomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call out speech: assert | might · perfect · passive | the crows and daws | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme name=Result | |||||
| 2 | know | present | we | another name | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus |
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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