Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 47

Poor young man! or fortunate young man he might be called.

What happens: call · To what, where: company · 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: 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	Poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 man	punct
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 man	cc
6	fortunate	fortunate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	amod
7	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	amod
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 man	conj
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 called	nsubj
10	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 called	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 called	aux:pass
12	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 man	acl:relcl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 man	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	might · passive		company					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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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