Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Drop of Water, sentence 7

Now, there once was an old man whom all the people called Kribble-Krabble, for that was his name.

Who acts: people, that · What happens: call, be · To what, where: old man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Drop of Water. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 was	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 was	expl
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 was	advmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 name	cop
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 man	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	amod
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 was	nsubj
9	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 called	obj
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 people	det:predet
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 people	det
12	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 called	nsubj
13	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 man	acl:relcl
14	Kribble	Kribble	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 called	xcomp
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 Krabble	punct
16	Krabble	Krabble	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Kribble	flat
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 name	punct
18	for	for	ADP	_	22 name	case
19	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 name	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 name	cop
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 name	nmod:poss
22	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 name	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past	all people		a old man				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent whom=Recipient
2	is	past	that					for man's name	tree rules

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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