Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Two Brothers, sentence 31
Their mother called them by their names: "Anders Sandoe" and "Hans Christian."
Who acts: mother, boys · What happens: call, name · To what, where: boys · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Two Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, boys), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 called | nsubj |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 called | obj |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 names | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 names | nmod:poss |
| 7 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 called | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 Sandoe | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Sandoe | punct |
| 10 | Anders | Anders | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Sandoe | compound |
| 11 | Sandoe | Sandoe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 called | parataxis |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Sandoe | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Hans | cc |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Hans | punct |
| 15 | Hans | Hans | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Sandoe | conj |
| 16 | Christian | Christian | PROPN | _ | 15 Hans | flat |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 Sandoe | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Sandoe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | past | boys's mother | boys = boy | by boys's names | tree rules | |||
| 2 | name | boys = boy | 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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