Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 38

They called it, "love," because the story was so lovely, and the other children had the same opinion.

Who acts: children, story, other children · What happens: call, be, have · To what, where: love, same opinion · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, story, other children), 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 called	nsubj
2	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 called	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 love	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 love	punct
6	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 called	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 love	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 love	punct
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	14 lovely	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 story	det
11	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lovely	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 lovely	cop
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 lovely	advmod
14	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 called	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 had	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 had	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 children	det
18	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 children	amod
19	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 had	nsubj
20	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 called	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 opinion	det
22	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 opinion	amod
23	opinion	opinion	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 had	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	call	past	children = child	love		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient
2	is	past	the story		lovely property	tree rules
3	have	past	the other children	the same opinion		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opinion=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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