The Yellow Fairy Book, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25), sentence 13

Her father and mother called her simply ‘Our Snow-daughter,’ and this name stuck to her all her life.

Who acts: father, name · What happens: call, stick · To what, where: woman, life · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, name), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 father	nmod:poss
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 called	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 mother	cc
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 father	conj
5	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 called	obj
7	simply	simply	ADV	_	5 called	advmod
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 daughter	punct
9	Our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 daughter	nmod:poss
10	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 daughter	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 Snow	punct
12	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 called	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 daughter	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 daughter	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 name	cc
16	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 name	det
17	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 daughter	conj
18	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 name	acl
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 her	case
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 stuck	obl
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 life	det:predet
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 life	nmod:poss
23	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 stuck	obl:unmarked
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past	woman's father and mother		woman			Our Snow daughter and this name obl; simply property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
2	stick	participle	this name not said here	woman's life	woman				vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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