Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers, sentence 41

But it was not true; the speaker only wanted to remind him of his name, and to make an APRIL fool of him; for with that fun the fourth generally began his career.

Who acts: punch, speaker, fourth · What happens: not be, want, remind, make, begin, name · To what, where: speaker, APRIL fool, career

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (punch, speaker, fourth), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 true	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 true	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 true	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 true	advmod
5	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 wanted	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 speaker	det
8	speaker	speaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wanted	nsubj
9	only	only	ADV	_	10 wanted	advmod
10	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 true	parataxis
11	to	to	PART	_	12 remind	mark
12	remind	remind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 wanted	xcomp
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 remind	iobj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 name	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 name	nmod:poss
16	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 remind	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 make	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 make	cc
19	to	to	PART	_	20 make	mark
20	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 wanted	conj
21	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 fool	det
22	APRIL	APRIL	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 fool	compound
23	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 make	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 fool	nmod
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 began	punct
27	for	for	ADP	_	30 fun	case
28	with	with	ADP	_	30 fun	case
29	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 fun	det
30	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 began	obl
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 fourth	det
32	fourth	fourth	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 began	nsubj
33	generally	generally	ADV	_	34 began	advmod
34	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 true	conj
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 career	nmod:poss
36	career	career	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 began	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 true	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not is	past	punch			true property	tree rules
2	want	past	the speaker				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	remind speech: other not said to happen	to-infinitive	the speaker not said here		speaker	of speaker's name	vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient of name=Topic
4	make	to-infinitive	the speaker not said here	a APRIL fool of speaker			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fool=Product
5	begin	past	the fourth	speaker's career		for that fun; generally property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent career=Eventuality
6	name		speaker				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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