Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 16

They also called him "Gunkel King," but we like the name of "Marsh King" better, and we will give him that name as the storks do.

Who acts: rules, we, storks · What happens: call, like, give, do · To what, where: wanderer, name · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rules, we, storks), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 called	nsubj
2	also	also	ADV	_	3 called	advmod
3	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 called	obj
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Gunkel	punct
6	Gunkel	Gunkel	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 called	xcomp
7	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Gunkel	flat
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Gunkel	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Gunkel	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 like	cc
11	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 like	nsubj
12	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 called	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 name	det
14	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 like	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 King	case
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 King	punct
17	Marsh	Marsh	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 King	compound
18	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 name	appos
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 King	punct
20	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 King	amod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 give	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 give	cc
23	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 give	nsubj
24	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 give	aux
25	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 called	conj
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 give	iobj
27	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 name	det
28	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 give	obj
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 do	mark
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 storks	det
31	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 do	nsubj
32	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 give	advcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	call	past	rules = rule		wanderer	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	like	present	we	the name		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot name=Theme
3	give	future	we	that name	wanderer	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient name=Theme
4	do	present	the storks			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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