Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 17

There was nothing much to be said about his name; he was called Peter.

Who acts: nothing, boy · What happens: be, say, call, name · To what, where: boy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Golden Treasure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nothing, boy), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 was	nsubj
4	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 nothing	amod
5	to	to	PART	_	7 said	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	aux:pass
7	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 much	acl
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 name	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 name	nmod:poss
10	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 called	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 called	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 called	aux:pass
14	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 was	parataxis
15	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 called	xcomp
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	nothing		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive · passive				about boy's name	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»
3	call	past · passive		boy			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
4	name		boy				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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