The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 88

They were all called “Hankur,” and were distinguished one from another by the name of a colour—blue, grey, red, and so on, except their chief, who was known as Hankur the Tall.

What happens: call, be, know, name · To what, where: robbers, distinguished one, another, chief, colour · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	4 called	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 called	aux:pass
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 called	advmod
4	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 Hankur	punct
6	Hankur	Hankur	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 called	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Hankur	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 Hankur	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 one	cc
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 one	cop
11	distinguished	distinguished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 one	amod
12	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 called	conj
13	from	from	ADP	_	14 another	case
14	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	12 one	nmod
15	by	by	ADP	_	17 name	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 name	det
17	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 one	nmod
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 colour	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 colour	det
20	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 name	nmod
21	—	-	PUNCT	_	22 blue	punct
22	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 colour	amod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 grey	punct
24	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 blue	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 red	punct
26	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 blue	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 on	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 on	cc
29	so	so	ADV	_	30 on	advmod
30	on	on	ADV	_	4 called	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 chief	punct
32	except	except	ADP	_	34 chief	case
33	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 chief	nmod:poss
34	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 called	xcomp
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 known	punct
36	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 known	nsubj:pass
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 known	aux:pass
38	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 chief	acl:relcl
39	as	as	ADP	_	40 Hankur	case
40	Hankur	Hankur	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 known	obl
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 Tall	det
42	Tall	Tall	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 Hankur	appos
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	call	past · passive	robbers = robber		all property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	is a	past	distinguished one	another	by the name of a colour	tree rules
3	know	past · passive	robbers's chief		as Hankur	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as hankur=Attribute
4	name		a colour			nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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