Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 153
She immediately looked at the wall where the dog's dress usually hung; and there was the little lambskin.
Who acts: panic, dress, little lambskin · What happens: look, hang, be
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 (panic, dress, little lambskin), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 3 looked | advmod |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 wall | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wall | det |
| 6 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | obl |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 hung | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 dog | det |
| 9 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dress | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 dog | case |
| 11 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hung | nsubj |
| 12 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 13 hung | advmod |
| 13 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 wall | acl:relcl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 was | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 was | cc |
| 16 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 17 was | expl |
| 17 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 lambskin | det |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 lambskin | amod |
| 20 | lambskin | lambskin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 was | nsubj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | panic | at the wall; immediately property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at wall=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hang | past | the dog's dress | usually property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | be | past | the little lambskin | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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