The Yellow Fairy Book, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25), sentence 20

The parents called the boy simply ‘Our Fire-son,’ a name which stuck to him all his life.

Who acts: parents, name · What happens: call, stick · To what, where: boy, 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 (parents, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 parents	det
2	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 called	nsubj
3	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boy	det
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 called	obj
6	simply	simply	ADV	_	3 called	advmod
7	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 son	punct
8	Our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 son	nmod:poss
9	Fire	Fire	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 son	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 Fire	punct
11	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 called	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 name	punct
13	’	'	DET	PronType=Tot	15 name	det:predet
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 name	det
15	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 son	appos
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 stuck	nsubj
17	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 name	acl:relcl
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 stuck	obl
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 life	det:predet
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 life	nmod:poss
22	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stuck	obl:unmarked
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past	the parents		the boy			simply property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent boy=Recipient
2	stick	past	' name	boy's life	boy				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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