Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 18

The whole town, and the Drum too, called him Peter the drummer's boy with the red hair; but his mother kissed his red hair, and called him her golden treasure.

Who acts: whole town, Peter · What happens: call, kiss, treasure · To what, where: Drum, red hair, 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 (whole town, Peter), 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	3 town	det
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 town	amod
3	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 kissed	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 called	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 called	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Drum	det
7	Drum	Drum	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 called	nsubj:pass
8	too	too	ADV	_	7 Drum	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 called	punct
10	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 town	acl:relcl
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 called	obj
12	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 called	xcomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 drummer	det
14	drummer	drummer	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 boy	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 drummer	case
16	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 called	xcomp
17	with	with	ADP	_	20 hair	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 hair	det
19	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 hair	amod
20	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 boy	nmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 kissed	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 kissed	cc
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 mother	nmod:poss
24	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 kissed	nsubj
25	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 hair	nmod:poss
27	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 hair	amod
28	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 kissed	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 called	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 called	cc
31	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 kissed	conj
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 called	obj
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 treasure	nmod:poss
34	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 treasure	amod
35	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 called	xcomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 kissed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	call	participle · passive	the whole town not said here	the Drum		vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme he=Result
2	kiss	past	the whole town	boy's red hair		vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Co-Agent
3	call	past	the whole town not said here		boy	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	treasure		Peter			nom treasure «possession 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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