Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 14

The Metal Pig raised himself gently, and the boy heard him say quite distinctly, "Hold tight, little boy, for I am going to run;" and away he started for a most wonderful ride.

Who acts: Metal Pig, boy · What happens: raise, hear, say, hold, go, run · To what, where: boy, tight little 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 (Metal Pig, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Pig	det
2	Metal	Metal	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Pig	compound
3	Pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 raised	nsubj
4	raised	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 raised	obj
6	gently	gently	ADV	_	4 raised	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 heard	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 heard	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 boy	det
10	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 heard	nsubj
11	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 raised	parataxis
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 say	nsubj
13	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 heard	parataxis
14	quite	quite	ADV	_	15 distinctly	advmod
15	distinctly	distinctly	ADV	_	13 say	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Hold	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 Hold	punct
18	Hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	13 say	parataxis
19	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 boy	amod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 tight	punct
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 boy	amod
22	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 Hold	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 going	punct
24	for	for	SCONJ	_	27 going	mark
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 going	nsubj
26	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 going	aux
27	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 Hold	advcl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 run	mark
29	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 going	xcomp
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 heard	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 heard	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 started	cc
33	away	away	ADV	_	35 started	advmod
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 started	nsubj
35	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 raised	conj
36	for	for	ADP	_	40 ride	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 ride	det
38	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	39 wonderful	advmod
39	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 ride	amod
40	ride	ride	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 started	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 raised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	raise	past	the Metal Pig	boy	gently property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
2	hear	past	the boy			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
3	say speech: assert	present	boy		distinctly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	hold in a quote	infinitive		tight little boy		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Theme
5	go in a quote	present · progressive	boy			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	run in a quote	to-infinitive	boy not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	start	past	boy		for a wonderful ride; away property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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