Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 26
Out in the sailors' quarter they give her a better name; there she is called elder-tree mother.
Who acts: Romans · What happens: give, call · To what, where: better name, name, quarter · 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 (Romans), 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 | Out | out | ADV | _ | 6 quarter | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 quarter | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sailors | det |
| 4 | sailors | sailor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 quarter | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 4 sailors | case |
| 6 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 give | obl |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 give | nsubj |
| 8 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 give | iobj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 name | det |
| 11 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 name | amod |
| 12 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 give | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 called | punct |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 17 called | expl |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 called | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 called | aux:pass |
| 17 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 give | parataxis |
| 18 | elder | elder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tree | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 elder | punct |
| 20 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 mother | compound |
| 21 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 called | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | Romans = roman | a better name | name | the sailors's quarter | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient name=Theme | ||
| 2 | call | present · passive | name | there | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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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