Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 5, sentence 7

They called him father, and Queen Harmonia mother.

Who acts: affairs · What happens: call · To what, where: King · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (affairs), 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	2 called	nsubj
2	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 called	obj
4	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 called	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mother	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 mother	cc
7	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 mother	compound
8	Harmonia	Harmonia	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Queen	flat
9	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 called	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past	affairs = affair		King			Queen mother obl	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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: «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (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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