Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 100
But at last he began to tease Bellissima, as the little dog was called.
Who acts: last · What happens: begin, tease, call · To what, where: Bellissima, little dog · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (last), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 began | cc |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 last | case |
| 3 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 began | nsubj |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 last | nsubj |
| 5 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 tease | mark |
| 7 | tease | tease | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 began | xcomp |
| 8 | Bellissima | Bellissima | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 tease | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 called | punct |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 called | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 dog | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 dog | amod |
| 13 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 called | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 called | aux:pass |
| 15 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 tease | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | last | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | tease | to-infinitive | last not said here | Bellissima | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bellissima=Patient | ||||
| 3 | call | past · passive | the little dog | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=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: «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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