Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 140
Then they told him where the watch-house was, and went away with Bellissima.
Who acts: things, watch house · What happens: tell, be, go away · To what, where: 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 (things, watch house), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 told | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | iobj |
| 5 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 3 told | ccomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 house | det |
| 7 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 house | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 watch | punct |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 where | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 where | cop |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 went | cc |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 told | conj |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 went | advmod |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 Bellissima | case |
| 16 | Bellissima | Bellissima | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | things = thing | boy | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 2 | is | past | the watch house | where property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go away | past | things = thing not said here | with Bellissima; away property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with bellissima=Beneficiary |
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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