Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill, sentence 71
"I call that kicking him out of the house," said the parlor-cat. "
Who acts: parlor cat · What happens: call, kick, say · To what, where: that, Rudy, house · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parlor cat), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 call | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 call | nsubj |
| 3 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | ccomp |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 call | obj |
| 5 | kicking | kick | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 call | advcl |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 kicking | obj |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 house | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 house | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 house | det |
| 10 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kicking | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 call | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 call | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 cat | det |
| 15 | parlor | parlor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 cat | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 parlor | punct |
| 17 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call in a quote | present | the parlor cat = cat | that | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | kick in a quote | gerund | the parlor cat = cat not said here | Rudy | the house | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Patient out house=Location | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the parlor cat | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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