Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 6
The spot was one sacred to olden times; even its name recalled a memory of the days when it was called "Delphi."
Who acts: spot, name · What happens: be, recall, call, name · To what, where: memory, name · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spot, name), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 spot | det |
| 2 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sacred | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sacred | cop |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 sacred | nummod |
| 5 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 sacred | xcomp |
| 7 | olden | olden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 times | amod |
| 8 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 to | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 recalled | punct |
| 10 | even | even | ADV | _ | 12 name | advmod |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 name | nmod:poss |
| 12 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 recalled | nsubj |
| 13 | recalled | recall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sacred | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 memory | det |
| 15 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 recalled | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 days | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 days | det |
| 18 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 memory | nmod |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 called | advmod |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 called | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 called | aux:pass |
| 22 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 recalled | advcl |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 Delphi | punct |
| 24 | Delphi | Delphi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 called | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sacred | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 sacred | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the spot | sacred property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | recall | past | spot's name | a memory of the days | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent memory=Theme | ||||
| 3 | call | past · passive | name | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | name | spot | 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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