Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 125
But the Metal Pig lay motionless, while the fresh stream gushed forth from its mouth.
Who acts: Metal Pig · What happens: lie, gush · To what, where: fresh stream, mouth
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 (Metal Pig), 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 | _ | 5 lay | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Pig | det |
| 3 | Metal | Metal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Pig | compound |
| 4 | Pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lay | nsubj |
| 5 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | motionless | motionless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lay | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 stream | punct |
| 8 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 11 stream | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 stream | det |
| 10 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 stream | amod |
| 11 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lay | obl |
| 12 | gushed | gush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 stream | acl |
| 13 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 12 gushed | advmod |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 mouth | case |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 16 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gushed | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | the Metal Pig | the fresh stream | motionless property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | gush | participle | the fresh stream not said here | pig's mouth | forth property | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from mouth=Source |
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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