Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Swan's Nest, sentence 5
They received the name of Varangians.
Who acts: wings · What happens: receive, name · To what, where: name, Varangians
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: who acts (wings), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 received | nsubj |
| 2 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 name | det |
| 4 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 received | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Varangians | case |
| 6 | Varangians | Varangian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 name | nmod |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 received | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | past | wings = wing | the name of Varangians | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme | ||||
| 2 | name | Varangians | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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