Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences, sentence 66
It pricked his fingers, but then he had called it a ghost.
Who acts: calyx, man · What happens: prick, call · To what, where: fingers, calyx · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (calyx, man), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 pricked | nsubj |
| 2 | pricked | prick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 4 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 pricked | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 called | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 called | cc |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 called | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 called | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 called | aux |
| 10 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 pricked | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 called | obj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 ghost | det |
| 13 | ghost | ghost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 called | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 pricked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prick | past | calyx | man's fingers | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer finger=Patient | ||||
| 2 | call | past · perfect | man | calyx | then | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient |
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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