Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Swan's Nest, sentence 3
This flight of swans men called the Lombards.
What happens: call · To what, where: swans men · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Swan's Nest. 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 flight | det |
| 2 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 men | case |
| 4 | swans | swan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 men | compound |
| 5 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 flight | nmod |
| 6 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 men | acl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Lombards | det |
| 8 | Lombards | Lombard | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 called | xcomp |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 flight | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | swans men not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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