Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 70
People called Jurgen insane, but that was not exactly the correct term.
Who acts: People, that · What happens: call, not be · To what, where: Jurgen, correct term · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (People, that), 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 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 called | nsubj |
| 2 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Jurgen | Jurgen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 called | obj |
| 4 | insane | insane | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 called | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 term | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 term | cc |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 term | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 term | cop |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 term | advmod |
| 10 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 13 term | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 term | det |
| 12 | correct | correct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 term | amod |
| 13 | term | term | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 called | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | People | Jurgen | insane property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent jurgen=Recipient | |||
| 2 | not is a | past | that | the correct term | exactly property | tree rules |
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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