Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 156
Poor little delicate thing, with those rough policemen! and she'll be frozen with cold."
What happens: freeze · 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: 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 | Poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 thing | amod |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 thing | amod |
| 3 | delicate | delicate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 thing | amod |
| 4 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 policemen | punct |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 policemen | case |
| 7 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 policemen | det |
| 8 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 policemen | amod |
| 9 | policemen | policeman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 thing | appos |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 policemen | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 frozen | cc |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 frozen | nsubj |
| 13 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 frozen | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 frozen | aux:pass |
| 15 | frozen | freeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 thing | conj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 cold | case |
| 17 | cold | cold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 frozen | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thing | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 thing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | freeze | future · passive | Bellissima | with cold | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with cold=Instrument |
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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