Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 131
The dog looked almost like a little kid when she was allowed to go out in winter, and trot after her mistress.
Who acts: dog, Bellissima · What happens: look, allow, go out · To what, where: Bellissima
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, Bellissima), 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 | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 8 kid | advmod |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 kid | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 kid | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 kid | amod |
| 8 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | obl |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 allowed | advmod |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 allowed | aux:pass |
| 12 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 looked | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 go | mark |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 allowed | xcomp |
| 15 | out | out | ADV | _ | 14 go | advmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 winter | case |
| 17 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 go | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 trot | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 trot | cc |
| 20 | trot | trot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | parataxis |
| 21 | after | after | ADP | _ | 23 mistress | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 mistress | nmod:poss |
| 23 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 trot | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the dog | like a little kid | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | allow | past · passive | Bellissima | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | go out not said to happen | to-infinitive | Bellissima not said here | winter | out property | vn interact-36.6 «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.
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