Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 113
"You may go home now," said the painter, while the boy stood watching him, till he had set up his easel.
Who acts: You, painter, boy · What happens: go, say, stand, watch, set up · To what, where: boy · 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 (You, painter, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 go | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | aux |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 go | advmod |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 go | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 painter | det |
| 11 | painter | painter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 stood | punct |
| 13 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 16 stood | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 boy | det |
| 15 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stood | nsubj |
| 16 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | conj |
| 17 | watching | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 stood | xcomp |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 watching | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 set | punct |
| 20 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 23 set | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 set | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 set | aux |
| 23 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 stood | advcl |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 set | compound:prt |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 easel | nmod:poss |
| 26 | easel | easel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 set | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | may | You | now | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the painter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | stand | past | the boy | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | watch | gerund | the boy not said here | boy | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 5 | set up | past · perfect · passive | boy | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme easel=Destination |
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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