Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 134
All his fancies were quickly put to flight; yet he kissed the Metal Pig once more, and then took Bellissima in his arms.
Who acts: flight, kid · What happens: put, kiss, take, fancy · To what, where: fancies, Metal Pig, Bellissima, arms
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 (flight, kid), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 fancies | det:predet |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 fancies | nmod:poss |
| 3 | fancies | fancy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 put | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 put | aux:pass |
| 5 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 6 put | advmod |
| 6 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 flight | case |
| 8 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 kissed | punct |
| 10 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 12 kissed | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 kissed | nsubj |
| 12 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 put | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Pig | det |
| 14 | Metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Pig | compound |
| 15 | Pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 kissed | obj |
| 16 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 17 more | advmod |
| 17 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 kissed | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 took | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 took | cc |
| 20 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 took | advmod |
| 21 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 kissed | conj |
| 22 | Bellissima | Bellissima | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 took | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 arms | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 arms | nmod:poss |
| 25 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 took | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past · passive | kid's fancies | to flight; quickly property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal | ||||
| 2 | kiss | past | flight | the Metal Pig | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pig=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | take | past | flight not said here | Bellissima | flight's arms | then | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bellissima=Value in arm=Location | ||
| 4 | fancy | kid | nom fancy «cognition transitive»: poss=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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