Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 101
This made the woman angry, and she scolded him and threatened him, which made him very unhappy, and he went and sat in his own room full of sad thoughts.
Who acts: This, woman, boy · What happens: make, scold, threaten, go, sit · To what, where: woman, boy, own room
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 (This, woman, 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 woman | det |
| 4 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obj |
| 5 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 made | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 scolded | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 scolded | cc |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 scolded | nsubj |
| 9 | scolded | scold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | parataxis |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 scolded | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 threatened | cc |
| 12 | threatened | threaten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 scolded | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 threatened | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 made | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 made | nsubj |
| 16 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 threatened | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 made | obj |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 unhappy | advmod |
| 19 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 made | xcomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 went | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 went | cc |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 went | nsubj |
| 23 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | parataxis |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 sat | cc |
| 25 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 went | conj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 room | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 room | nmod:poss |
| 28 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 room | amod |
| 29 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sat | obl |
| 30 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 room | amod |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 thoughts | case |
| 32 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 thoughts | amod |
| 33 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 full | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | This | the woman | angry property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset woman=Product | |||
| 2 | scold | past | woman | boy | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | threaten | past | woman not said here | boy | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | make | past | boy | unhappy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product | ||||
| 5 | go | past | boy | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | sit | past | boy not said here | boy's own room | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in room=Location |
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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