Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep, sentence 6

He had goat's legs, little horns on his head, and a long beard; the children in the room always called him, "Major general-field-sergeant-commander Billy-goat's-legs."

Who acts: man, long beard, general field · What happens: have, call, commander · To what, where: legs, man, goat's legs · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, long beard, general field), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 legs	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 goat	case
5	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 horns	punct
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 horns	amod
8	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 legs	conj
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 head	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 head	nmod:poss
11	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 horns	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 called	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 called	cc
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 beard	det
15	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 beard	amod
16	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 called	nsubj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 children	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 children	det
19	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 beard	appos
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 room	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 room	det
22	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 children	nmod
23	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	24 called	advmod
24	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 called	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 commander	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 commander	punct
28	Major	major	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 commander	amod
29	general	general	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 field	amod
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 general	punct
31	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 commander	nsubj
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 field	punct
33	sergeant	sergeant	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 commander	compound
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 commander	punct
35	commander	commander	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 called	obl
36	Billy	Billy	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 commander	appos
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 Billy	punct
38	goat's	goat's	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 legs	compound
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 goat's	punct
40	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 commander	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct
42	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	man	goat's legs and little horns on man's head			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient
2	call speech: assert	past	a long beard		man	always property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	commander in a quote		general field	goat's legs			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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