Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 108
She was called 'contumacious lady,' or something of that kind.
What happens: call · To what, where: Barbel · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 called | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 called | aux:pass |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 lady | punct |
| 5 | contumacious | contumacious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 lady | amod |
| 6 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 called | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 lady | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 lady | punct |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 something | cc |
| 10 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 lady | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 kind | case |
| 12 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 kind | det |
| 13 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 something | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past · passive | Barbel | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=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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