The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 33

Pinkel,' they called him in scorn, and by-and-by 'Pinkel' became his name throughout the village.

Who acts: Pinkel, story · What happens: call, become, name · To what, where: story, scorn, name · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pinkel, story), 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	Pinkel	Pinkel	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 called	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Pinkel	punct
3	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 called	punct
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 called	nsubj
5	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 called	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 scorn	case
8	scorn	scorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 called	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 became	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 became	cc
11	by	by	ADP	_	17 Pinkel	case
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 Pinkel	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 Pinkel	cc
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 and	punct
15	by	by	ADP	_	17 Pinkel	case
16	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 Pinkel	punct
17	Pinkel	Pinkel	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 became	obl
18	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 Pinkel	punct
19	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 called	conj
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 name	nmod:poss
21	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 became	obj
22	throughout	throughout	ADP	_	24 village	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 village	det
24	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 became	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past	Pinkel		story	scorn			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	become	past	Pinkel not said here	story's name			throughout the village	by Pinkel	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient name=Result
3	name		story						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: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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