Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 110
They walked on till they reached the picture gallery, and mounted the same staircase up which he had ridden that night on the Metal Pig.
Who acts: box, gentleman · What happens: walk, reach, mount, ride · To what, where: picture gallery, same staircase
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 (box, gentleman), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 walked | nsubj |
| 2 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 6 reached | mark |
| 4 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 6 reached | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 reached | nsubj |
| 6 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 walked | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 gallery | det |
| 8 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gallery | compound |
| 9 | gallery | gallery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 reached | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 mounted | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 mounted | cc |
| 12 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 walked | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 staircase | det |
| 14 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 staircase | amod |
| 15 | staircase | staircase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 mounted | obj |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 which | case |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 ridden | obl |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 ridden | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 ridden | aux |
| 20 | ridden | ride | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 staircase | acl:relcl |
| 21 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 night | det |
| 22 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ridden | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 Pig | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Pig | det |
| 25 | Metal | Metal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Pig | compound |
| 26 | Pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ridden | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | box | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | reach | past | box | the picture gallery | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent gallery=Theme | ||||
| 3 | mount | past | box not said here | the same staircase | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent staircase=Patient | ||||
| 4 | ride | past · perfect | gentleman | the same staircase | night | on the Metal Pig | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent up which=Trajectory |
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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