Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 114
"May I see you paint?" asked the boy; "may I see you put the picture on this white canvas?"
Who acts: boy, you, painter · What happens: see, paint, ask, put · To what, where: you, picture, white canvas · 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 (boy, you, painter), 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 see | punct |
| 2 | May | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 see | nsubj |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 paint | nsubj |
| 6 | paint | paint | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 see | xcomp |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 boy | det |
| 11 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | nsubj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 see | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 see | punct |
| 14 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 see | aux |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 see | nsubj |
| 16 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 see | parataxis |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 see | obj |
| 18 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 see | xcomp |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 picture | det |
| 20 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 put | obj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 canvas | case |
| 22 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 canvas | det |
| 23 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 canvas | amod |
| 24 | canvas | canvas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 put | obl |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | may | the boy = boy | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | paint in a quote | infinitive | you | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the boy | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | see in a quote | may | the painter = painter | you | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | put in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | the picture | this white canvas | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent picture=Theme on canvas=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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