Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 130
The dog never went out in winter, unless she was attired in a little lambskin coat which had been made for her; it was fastened round the little dog's neck and body with red ribbons, and was decorated with rosettes and little bells.
Who acts: dog, little lambskin coat · What happens: not go out, attire, make, fasten, decorate · To what, where: Bellissima, little lambskin coat, dog
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 (dog, little lambskin coat), 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 | 2 dog | det |
| 2 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 went | advmod |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 went | compound:prt |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 winter | case |
| 7 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 attired | punct |
| 9 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 12 attired | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 attired | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 attired | aux:pass |
| 12 | attired | attire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 went | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 coat | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 coat | det |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 coat | amod |
| 16 | lambskin | lambskin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 coat | compound |
| 17 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 attired | obl:agent |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 made | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 made | aux |
| 20 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 made | aux:pass |
| 21 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 coat | acl:relcl |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 her | case |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 made | obl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 fastened | punct |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 fastened | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 fastened | aux:pass |
| 27 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 went | parataxis |
| 28 | round | round | ADP | _ | 33 neck | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 dog | det |
| 30 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 dog | amod |
| 31 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 neck | nmod:poss |
| 32 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 31 dog | case |
| 33 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 fastened | obl |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 body | cc |
| 35 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 neck | conj |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 ribbons | case |
| 37 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 ribbons | amod |
| 38 | ribbons | ribbon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 body | nmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 decorated | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 decorated | cc |
| 41 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 decorated | aux:pass |
| 42 | decorated | decorate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 went | parataxis |
| 43 | with | with | ADP | _ | 44 rosettes | case |
| 44 | rosettes | rosette | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 decorated | obl |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 bells | cc |
| 46 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 bells | amod |
| 47 | bells | bell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 rosettes | conj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go out | past | the dog | winter | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | attire a condition, not said to happen | past · passive | a little lambskin coat | Bellissima | vn dress-41.1.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | make | past · perfect · passive | a little lambskin coat | for Bellissima | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for she=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | fasten | past · passive | dog | round the little dog's neck and body with red ribbons | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 5 | decorate | past · passive | with rosettes and little bells | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: with rosette=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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