Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 121
When evening came, and the house door stood open, he slipped out.
Who acts: evening, house door, boy · What happens: come, stand, slip out
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 (evening, house door, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 slipped | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 stood | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 stood | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 door | det |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 door | compound |
| 8 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stood | nsubj |
| 9 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 10 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 stood | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 slipped | nsubj |
| 13 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 slipped | compound:prt |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 slipped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | evening | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | stand | past | the house door | open property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | slip out | past | boy | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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