Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tuk, sentence 1

Yes, they called him Little Tuk, but it was not his real name; he had called himself so before he could speak plainly, and he meant it for Charles.

Who acts: they, it, Tuk · What happens: call, not be, speak, mean · To what, where: him, real name, Tuk, name · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (they, it, Tuk), 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	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 called	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 called	nsubj
4	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 called	obj
6	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Tuk	amod
7	Tuk	Tuk	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 called	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 name	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 name	cc
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 name	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 name	cop
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 name	advmod
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 name	nmod:poss
14	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 name	amod
15	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 called	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 called	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 called	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 called	aux
19	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 called	conj
20	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 called	obj
21	so	so	ADV	_	25 speak	advmod
22	before	before	SCONJ	_	25 speak	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 speak	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 speak	aux
25	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 called	xcomp
26	plainly	plainly	ADV	_	25 speak	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 meant	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 meant	cc
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 meant	nsubj
30	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 called	conj
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 meant	obj
32	for	for	ADP	_	33 Charles	case
33	Charles	Charles	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 meant	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	call	past	they		him = he		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	not is a	past	it	Tuk's real name			tree rules
3	call	past · perfect	Tuk	Tuk			tree rules
4	speak speech: other	could	Tuk			plainly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	mean	past	Tuk	name		for Charles	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot it=Theme for charles=Attribute

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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