Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 127

He looked down, and there was Bellissima, little smooth-shaven Bellissima, barking as if she would have said, "Here I am too; why are you sitting there?"

Who acts: boy, Bellissima, you · What happens: look down, be, bark, say, sit · Speech: someone speaks here

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, Bellissima, you), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 looked	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 was	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 was	cc
6	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	7 was	expl
7	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	parataxis
8	Bellissima	Bellissima	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 was	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Bellissima	punct
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Bellissima	amod
11	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 shaven	amod
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 smooth	punct
13	shaven	shaven	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Bellissima	amod
14	Bellissima	Bellissima	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Bellissima	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 barking	punct
16	barking	bark	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 Bellissima	acl:relcl
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 said	mark
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 said	mark
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 said	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 said	aux
21	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 said	aux
22	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 barking	ccomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 Here	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 Here	punct
25	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 said	advmod
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 too	nsubj
27	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 too	cop
28	too	too	ADV	_	25 Here	advcl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 sitting	punct
30	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	33 sitting	advmod
31	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 sitting	aux
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 sitting	nsubj
33	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 looked	parataxis
34	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 sitting	advmod
35	?	?	PUNCT	_	33 sitting	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 sitting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	look down	past	boy			tree rules
2	be	past	Bellissima and little shaven Bellissima	there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	bark	gerund	Bellissima and little shaven Bellissima not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	say speech: ask a condition, not said to happen	would · perfect	Bellissima	here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is in a quote	present	Bellissima		too property	tree rules
6	sit in a quote	present · progressive	you	there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/89/127/