Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Two Maidens, sentence 20

"No; if there must be a change," said the younger, "I should prefer to be called 'Missy,' for that reminds one a little of maidens."

Who acts: change, that · What happens: be, say, prefer, call, remind · To what, where: change, one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Two Maidens. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (change, that), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 change	punct
2	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	9 change	discourse
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 be	mark
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	7 be	expl
6	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 be	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 change	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 change	det
9	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 change	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 change	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 younger	det
14	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 said	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 prefer	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 prefer	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 prefer	nsubj
18	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 prefer	aux
19	prefer	prefer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
20	to	to	PART	_	22 called	mark
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 called	aux:pass
22	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 prefer	xcomp
23	'	'	PUNCT	_	24 Missy	punct
24	Missy	Missy	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 called	xcomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 Missy	punct
26	'	'	PUNCT	_	24 Missy	punct
27	for	for	SCONJ	_	29 reminds	mark
28	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 reminds	nsubj
29	reminds	remind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 called	advcl
30	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 reminds	obj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 little	det
32	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 one	amod
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 maidens	case
34	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 little	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 prefer	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 prefer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a in a quote	infinitive		a change	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	a change		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	prefer in a quote	should	a change = change		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	call not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive · passive	a change = change not said here		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»
5	remind speech: other in a quote	present	that	one	vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=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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