Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 137
Where have you stolen that pretty dog?" they asked; and they took it away from him.
Who acts: you, things · What happens: steal, ask, take away · To what, where: pretty dog, dog · 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, things), 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 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 4 stolen | advmod |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 stolen | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 stolen | nsubj |
| 4 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 asked | advcl |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 dog | mark |
| 6 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 dog | amod |
| 7 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stolen | xcomp |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 stolen | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 stolen | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 asked | nsubj |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 took | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 took | cc |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 took | nsubj |
| 15 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 asked | ccomp |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 took | obj |
| 17 | away | away | ADV | _ | 15 took | advmod |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 took | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal | present · perfect | you | pretty dog | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask in a quote | past | things = thing | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | take away in a quote | past | things = thing | dog | from boy; away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent it=Theme from he=Initial_Location |
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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