Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 129

Bellissima in the street, and not dressed!" as the old lady called it; "what would be the end of this?"

Who acts: old lady · What happens: not dress, call, be · To what, where: Bellissima, street, end · 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 (old lady), 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	Bellissima	Bellissima	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 dressed	nsubj:pass
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 street	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 street	det
4	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bellissima	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 dressed	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 dressed	cc
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 dressed	advmod
8	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 dressed	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 dressed	punct
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 called	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 lady	det
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 lady	amod
14	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 called	nsubj
15	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 dressed	advcl
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 called	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 end	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 end	punct
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 end	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 end	aux
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 end	cop
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 end	det
23	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 called	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 this	case
25	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 end	nmod
26	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 dressed	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 dressed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not dress	participle · passive		Bellissima in the street		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	call in a quote	past	the old lady	street		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient
3	is a	would		the end	of this	tree rules

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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