Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 12

No one was in the street but himself; it belonged only to him, so he boldly seated himself on the pig's back, leaned forward so that his curly head could rest on the head of the animal, and, before he was aware, he fell asleep.

Who acts: one, street, boy, curly head · What happens: be, belong, seat, learn, rest, fall · To what, where: street, boy, back, head

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 (one, street, boy, curly head), 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 street	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 street	cop
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 street	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 street	det
6	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 himself	cc
8	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 street	conj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 belonged	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 belonged	nsubj
11	belonged	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 street	parataxis
12	only	only	ADV	_	14 him	advmod
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 belonged	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 seated	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	19 seated	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 seated	nsubj
18	boldly	boldly	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 seated	advmod
19	seated	seat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 belonged	parataxis
20	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 seated	obj
21	on	on	ADP	_	25 back	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 pig	det
23	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 back	nmod:poss
24	's	's	PART	_	23 pig	case
25	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 seated	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 leaned	punct
27	leaned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 seated	conj
28	forward	forward	ADV	_	27 leaned	advmod
29	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	35 rest	mark
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 so	fixed
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 head	nmod:poss
32	curly	curly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 head	amod
33	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 rest	nsubj
34	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 rest	aux
35	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 leaned	advcl
36	on	on	ADP	_	38 head	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 head	det
38	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 rest	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 animal	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 animal	det
41	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 head	nmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 fell	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 fell	cc
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 and	punct
45	before	before	SCONJ	_	48 aware	mark
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 aware	nsubj
47	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 aware	cop
48	aware	aware	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 fell	advcl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 aware	punct
50	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 fell	nsubj
51	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 belonged	conj
52	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 fell	xcomp
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 street	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	no one			the street		tree rules
2	belong	past	street		boy			vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
3	seat	past	boy	boy		the pig's back	boldly property	vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Value
4	learn	past	boy not said here				forward property	vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	rest	could	boy's curly head			the head of the animal		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on head=Location
6	is	past	boy				aware property	tree rules
7	fall	past	boy				asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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