Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Child in the Grave, sentence 64
Suddenly her name was called from above; what could it mean? her name uttered in a plaintive voice.
Who acts: name, mother · What happens: call, mean, utter, name · To what, where: name, plaintive voice · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Child in the Grave. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (name, mother), 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 5 called | advmod |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 name | nmod:poss |
| 3 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 called | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 called | aux:pass |
| 5 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 above | case |
| 7 | above | above | ADV | _ | 5 called | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 mean | punct |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 mean | obj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 mean | aux |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 mean | nsubj |
| 12 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 called | advcl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 name | punct |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 name | nmod:poss |
| 15 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 mean | obj |
| 16 | uttered | utter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 name | acl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 voice | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 voice | det |
| 19 | plaintive | plaintive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 voice | amod |
| 20 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 uttered | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past · passive | mother's name | suddenly property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from above=Source | ||||
| 2 | mean | could | name | mother's name | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | utter speech: other | participle | mother's name not said here | a plaintive voice | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | name | mother | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | name | mother | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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