Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 24

They wanted to draw the young artist out with them into the merry wild life, the mad life as it might also be called; and at certain times he felt an inclination for it.

Who acts: friends, Fornarina · What happens: want, draw, call, feel · To what, where: young artist, merry wild life, artist, inclination · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friends, Fornarina), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 draw	mark
4	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 artist	det
6	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 artist	amod
7	artist	artist	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 draw	obj
8	out	out	ADV	_	4 draw	advmod
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 draw	obl
11	into	into	ADP	_	15 life	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 life	det
13	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 life	amod
14	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 life	amod
15	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 draw	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 life	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 life	det
18	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 life	amod
19	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 life	conj
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 called	mark
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 called	nsubj:pass
22	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 called	aux
23	also	also	ADV	_	25 called	advmod
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 called	aux:pass
25	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 life	advcl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 felt	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 felt	cc
28	at	at	ADP	_	30 times	case
29	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 times	amod
30	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 felt	obl
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 felt	nsubj
32	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wanted	conj
33	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 inclination	det
34	inclination	inclination	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 felt	obj
35	for	for	ADP	_	36 it	case
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 felt	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wanted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	friends = friend				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	draw not said to happen	to-infinitive	friends = friend not said here	the young artist		into the merry wild life and the mad life result; with friends = friend; out property	vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent artist=Patient into life=Result
3	call	might · passive		artist			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
4	feel	past	Fornarina	a inclination	time	for artist	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent inclination=Location for it=Theme

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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