Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 119
But all day long his thoughts were in the picture gallery; and so he pricked his fingers and was awkward.
Who acts: thoughts, boy · What happens: be, prick, think · To what, where: picture gallery, fingers
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 (thoughts, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 gallery | cc |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 long | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 gallery | advmod |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 6 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 gallery | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 gallery | cop |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 gallery | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 gallery | det |
| 10 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gallery | compound |
| 11 | gallery | gallery | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 pricked | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 pricked | cc |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 pricked | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 pricked | nsubj |
| 16 | pricked | prick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 gallery | parataxis |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 18 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 pricked | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 awkward | cc |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 awkward | cop |
| 21 | awkward | awkward | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 pricked | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 gallery | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | boy's thoughts | the picture gallery | long property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | prick | past | boy | boy's fingers | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer finger=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | past | boy not said here | awkward property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | think | boy | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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