Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 115
"I am not going to paint yet," replied the artist; then he brought out a piece of chalk.
Who acts: artist, boy · What happens: not go, paint, reply, bring out · To what, where: piece · 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 (artist, 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 | _ | 5 going | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 going | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 going | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 going | advmod |
| 5 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 replied | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 paint | mark |
| 7 | paint | paint | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 going | xcomp |
| 8 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 7 paint | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 going | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 going | punct |
| 11 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 artist | det |
| 13 | artist | artist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 brought | punct |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 brought | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 brought | nsubj |
| 17 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 replied | conj |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 brought | compound:prt |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 piece | det |
| 20 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 brought | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 chalk | case |
| 22 | chalk | chalk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 piece | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go in a quote | present · progressive | the artist = artist | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | paint in a quote | to-infinitive | the artist = artist not said here | yet | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | the artist | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | bring out | past | boy | a piece of chalk | then | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent piece=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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