Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 99
He was like a tub that could never get full; he snored like a whole sty of pigs, and he looked red and bloated.
Who acts: man, tub · What happens: be, not get, snore, look, bloat
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, tub), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 tub | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tub | cop |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 tub | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 tub | det |
| 5 | tub | tub | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 get | nsubj |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 get | aux |
| 8 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 9 get | advmod |
| 9 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 tub | acl:relcl |
| 10 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 get | xcomp |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 snored | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 snored | nsubj |
| 13 | snored | snore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tub | parataxis |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 17 sty | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 sty | det |
| 16 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 sty | amod |
| 17 | sty | sty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 snored | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 pigs | case |
| 19 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 sty | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 looked | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 looked | cc |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 looked | nsubj |
| 23 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 snored | conj |
| 24 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 looked | xcomp |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 bloated | cc |
| 26 | bloated | bloat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 red | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tub | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | man | like a tub | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not get | could | a tub | full property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | snore | past | man | like a whole sty of pigs | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | look | past | man | red property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | bloat | participle | man not said here | tree rules |
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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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