Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 135
The poor little thing trembled so with cold, that the boy ran homeward as fast as he could.
Who acts: poor little thing · What happens: tremble, run · To what, where: poor little thing, homeward
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 (poor little thing), 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 | 4 thing | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 thing | amod |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 thing | amod |
| 4 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ran | nsubj:outer |
| 5 | trembled | tremble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 thing | acl |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 trembled | advmod |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 cold | case |
| 8 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 trembled | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ran | punct |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 ran | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 boy | det |
| 12 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ran | nsubj |
| 13 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | homeward | homeward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ran | obj |
| 15 | as | as | ADV | _ | 16 fast | advmod |
| 16 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 ran | advmod |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 could | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 could | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 fast | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tremble | participle | the poor little thing not said here | with cold | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | run | past | the poor little thing | homeward | fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme homeward=Trajectory |
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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