Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 108

Next morning, their neighbor, the artist, passed by, carrying a paint-box and a large roll of canvas.

What happens: pass by, carry, roll · To what, where: paint box, canvas

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: 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	Next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 morning	amod
2	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 neighbor	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 neighbor	punct
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 neighbor	nmod:poss
5	neighbor	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 artist	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 artist	det
8	artist	artist	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 neighbor	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 passed	punct
10	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 neighbor	conj
11	by	by	ADP	_	10 passed	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 carrying	punct
13	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 passed	advcl
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 box	det
15	paint	paint	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 box	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 paint	punct
17	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 carrying	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 roll	cc
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 roll	det
20	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 roll	amod
21	roll	roll	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 box	conj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 canvas	case
23	canvas	canvas	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 roll	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 neighbor	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	roles by
1	pass by	participle		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	carry	gerund	a paint box and a large roll of canvas	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Theme
3	roll		canvas	nom roll «event transitive»: of=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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