Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 103
That night he lay awake, thinking of the Metal Pig; indeed, it was always in his thoughts.
Who acts: chamber, pig · What happens: lie, think, be · To what, where: thoughts
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 (chamber, pig), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 night | det |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lay | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 lay | nsubj |
| 4 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | awake | awake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 lay | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 thinking | punct |
| 7 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 lay | advcl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Pig | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Pig | det |
| 10 | Metal | Metal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Pig | compound |
| 11 | Pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thinking | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 lay | punct |
| 13 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 4 lay | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 thoughts | punct |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 thoughts | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 thoughts | cop |
| 17 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 20 thoughts | advmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 thoughts | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 20 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lay | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | chamber | night | awake, indeed property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | gerund | chamber not said here | of the Metal Pig | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | past | pig | chamber's thoughts | always property | 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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