Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 10
He then walked away towards the Metal Pig, half knelt down, clasped it with his arms, and then put his mouth to the shining snout and drank deep draughts of the fresh water.
Who acts: boy · What happens: walk away, kneel down, clasp, put, shine, drink · To what, where: pig, mouth, deep draughts
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Metal Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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 | 3 walked | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 walked | advmod |
| 3 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 walked | advmod |
| 5 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 8 Pig | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Pig | det |
| 7 | Metal | Metal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Pig | compound |
| 8 | Pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 walked | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 knelt | punct |
| 10 | half | half | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 11 knelt | advmod |
| 11 | knelt | kneel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 walked | conj |
| 12 | down | down | ADP | _ | 11 knelt | compound:prt |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 clasped | punct |
| 14 | clasped | clasp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 walked | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 clasped | obj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 arms | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 arms | nmod:poss |
| 18 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 clasped | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 put | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 put | cc |
| 21 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 put | advmod |
| 22 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 walked | parataxis |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 24 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 put | obj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 snout | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 snout | det |
| 27 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 snout | amod |
| 28 | snout | snout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 put | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 drank | cc |
| 30 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 put | conj |
| 31 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 draughts | amod |
| 32 | draughts | draught | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 drank | obj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 water | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 water | det |
| 35 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 water | amod |
| 36 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 draughts | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk away | past | boy | then | towards the Metal Pig; away property | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | kneel down | participle | boy not said here | half property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | clasp | past | boy not said here | pig | with boy's arms | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with arm=Instrument | |||
| 4 | put | past | boy's mouth | then | to the shining snout | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent mouth=Goal | |||
| 5 | shine | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | drink | past | deep draughts of the fresh water | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent draught=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: «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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