Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 155
You bad boy! how did you entice her out?
Who acts: you · What happens: entice out · To what, where: Bellissima
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), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 boy | nsubj |
| 2 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 boy | amod |
| 3 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 boy | punct |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 entice | advmod |
| 6 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 entice | aux |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 entice | nsubj |
| 8 | entice | entice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 boy | acl:relcl |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 entice | obj |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 entice | compound:prt |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 boy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | entice out | past · do-support | you | Bellissima | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer |
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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