Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 136
"What are you running away with there?" asked two of the police whom he met, and at whom the dog barked. "
Who acts: you, boy, dog · What happens: run away, ask, meet, bark · To what, where: two, police · 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 (you, boy, dog), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 running | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 running | obj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 running | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 running | nsubj |
| 5 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 running | advmod |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 there | case |
| 8 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 running | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 running | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 running | punct |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 asked | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 police | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 police | det |
| 15 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 two | nmod |
| 16 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 met | obj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 met | nsubj |
| 18 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 police | acl:relcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 barked | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 barked | cc |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 whom | case |
| 22 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 barked | obl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 dog | det |
| 24 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 barked | nsubj |
| 25 | barked | bark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 asked | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run away in a quote | present · progressive | you | away property | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Product with there=Material | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | two of the police | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent two=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | meet | past | boy | the police | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | bark | past | the dog | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at whom=Stimulus |
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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