Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 117
Some call me Little Elder-tree Mother; others a Dryad; but my real name is 'Remembrance.'
Who acts: Some, real name, my · What happens: call, be, name · To what, where: me, Remembrance · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Some, real name, my), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 call | nsubj |
| 2 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 call | obj |
| 4 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Elder | amod |
| 5 | Elder | Elder | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Mother | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Elder | punct |
| 7 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Mother | compound |
| 8 | Mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 call | xcomp |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 others | punct |
| 10 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 call | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 Dryad | det |
| 12 | Dryad | Dryad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 others | appos |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 Remembrance | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 Remembrance | cc |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 name | nmod:poss |
| 16 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 name | amod |
| 17 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Remembrance | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 Remembrance | cop |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 Remembrance | punct |
| 20 | Remembrance | remembrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 call | parataxis |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 call | punct |
| 22 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 call | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | present | Some | me | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | my real name | Remembrance | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | name | my | 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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