Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 128
A fiery dragon could not have frightened the little boy so much as did the little dog in this place. "
What happens: not frighten, do · To what, where: fiery dragon, little dog, place
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: 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 dragon | det |
| 2 | fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 dragon | amod |
| 3 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 frightened | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 frightened | advmod |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 frightened | aux |
| 7 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 boy | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 boy | amod |
| 10 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 frightened | obj |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 much | advmod |
| 12 | much | much | ADV | _ | 14 did | advmod |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 did | mark |
| 14 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 frightened | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 dog | det |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 dog | amod |
| 17 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 did | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 place | case |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 place | det |
| 20 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 did | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 frightened | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 frightened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not frighten | could · perfect · passive | a fiery dragon | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer boy=Result | |||||
| 2 | do | past | the little dog | this place | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Eventuality |
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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