Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell, sentence 47

He called her his dryad, she said, and the tree his tree; for the grand old oak, with its gnarled trunk, was just to his taste.

Who acts: Phantaesus, dryad, tree · What happens: call, say, tree, gnarl, be · To what, where: dryad · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Phantaesus, dryad, tree), 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 called	nsubj
2	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 called	obj
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 dryad	nmod:poss
5	dryad	dryad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 called	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 called	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 tree	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 tree	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tree	det
12	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tree	nsubj
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 tree	nmod:poss
14	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	ccomp
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 oak	punct
16	for	for	ADP	_	20 oak	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 oak	det
18	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 oak	amod
19	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 oak	amod
20	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	ccomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 trunk	punct
22	with	with	ADP	_	25 trunk	case
23	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 trunk	nmod:poss
24	gnarled	gnarl	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 trunk	amod
25	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 oak	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 taste	punct
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 taste	cop
28	just	just	ADV	_	31 taste	advmod
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 taste	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 taste	nmod:poss
31	taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 oak	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	call	past	Phantaesus	dryad		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	past	dryad			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	tree		the tree			tree rules
4	gnarl	participle				tree rules
5	is	past	dryad not said here		to Phantaesus's taste	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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