Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 138
"Oh, I have not stolen it; do give it to me back again," cried the boy, despairingly.
Who acts: boy · What happens: not steal, give, cry · To what, where: dog, boy · 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 (boy), 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 | _ | 7 stolen | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 stolen | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 stolen | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 stolen | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 stolen | advmod |
| 7 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 cried | advcl |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 stolen | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 give | punct |
| 10 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 give | aux |
| 11 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 stolen | parataxis |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 give | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 me | case |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 give | obl |
| 15 | back | back | ADV | _ | 16 again | advmod |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 give | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 stolen | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 cried | punct |
| 19 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 boy | det |
| 21 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 cried | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 despairingly | punct |
| 23 | despairingly | despairingly | ADV | _ | 19 cried | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not steal in a quote | present · perfect | the boy = boy | dog | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give in a quote | infinitive · do-support | dog | the boy = boy | again | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to i=Recipient | |||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | the boy | despairingly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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