Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 126

The little boy still sat astride on its back, when he felt something pulling at his clothes.

Who acts: little boy, boy · What happens: sit, feel, pull · To what, where: back, something

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 (little boy, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 boy	amod
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	nsubj
4	still	still	ADV	_	5 sat	advmod
5	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	astride	astride	ADV	_	5 sat	advmod
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 back	case
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 back	nmod:poss
9	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 felt	punct
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 felt	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 felt	nsubj
13	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sat	conj
14	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	13 felt	obj
15	pulling	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 something	acl
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 clothes	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 clothes	nmod:poss
18	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	15 pulling	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	the little boy		pig's back	still	astride property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on back=Location
2	feel	past	boy	something				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme
3	pull	gerund					at boy's clothes	vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at clothes=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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