Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 123

Away he went through the already-deserted streets, and soon came to the Metal Pig; he stooped down and kissed its shining nose, and then seated himself on its back.

Who acts: boy · What happens: go, desert, come, stoop down, kiss, shine · To what, where: deserted streets, shining nose, boy, back

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), 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	Away	away	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	through	through	ADP	_	9 streets	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 streets	det
6	already	already	ADV	_	8 deserted	advmod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 already	punct
8	deserted	desert	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 streets	amod
9	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 went	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 came	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 came	cc
12	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 came	advmod
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
14	to	to	ADP	_	17 Pig	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Pig	det
16	Metal	Metal	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Pig	compound
17	Pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 stooped	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 stooped	nsubj
20	stooped	stoop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
21	down	down	ADP	_	20 stooped	compound:prt
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 kissed	cc
23	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 stooped	conj
24	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 nose	nmod:poss
25	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 nose	amod
26	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 kissed	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 seated	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 seated	cc
29	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 seated	advmod
30	seated	seat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 stooped	conj
31	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	30 seated	obj
32	on	on	ADP	_	34 back	case
33	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 back	nmod:poss
34	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 seated	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	boy		the deserted streets		away property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through street=Initial_Location
2	desert	participle						vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come	past	boy not said here				to the Metal Pig; soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to pig=Initial_Location
4	stoop down	past	boy					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	kiss	past	boy not said here	door's shining nose				vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Co-Agent
6	shine	gerund						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	seat	past	boy not said here	boy	door's back	then		vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Value

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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