Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 159
He took the boy between his knees, and questioned him; and, in broken sentences, he soon heard the whole story, and also about the Metal Pig, and the wonderful ride to the picture-gallery, which was certainly rather incomprehensible.
Who acts: boy, picture gallery · What happens: take, question, break, hear, be · To what, where: boy, whole story, broken sentences
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 (boy, picture gallery), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 boy | det |
| 4 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 5 | between | between | ADP | _ | 7 knees | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 knees | nmod:poss |
| 7 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 boy | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 questioned | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 questioned | cc |
| 10 | questioned | question | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 questioned | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 heard | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 heard | cc |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 and | punct |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 sentences | case |
| 16 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 sentences | amod |
| 17 | sentences | sentence | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 heard | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sentences | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 heard | nsubj |
| 20 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 heard | advmod |
| 21 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | parataxis |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 story | det |
| 23 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 story | amod |
| 24 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 heard | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 Pig | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 Pig | cc |
| 27 | also | also | ADV | _ | 31 Pig | advmod |
| 28 | about | about | ADP | _ | 31 Pig | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Pig | det |
| 30 | Metal | Metal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Pig | compound |
| 31 | Pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 heard | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 ride | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 ride | cc |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 ride | det |
| 35 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 ride | amod |
| 36 | ride | ride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 heard | conj |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 gallery | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 gallery | det |
| 39 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 gallery | compound |
| 40 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 39 picture | punct |
| 41 | gallery | gallery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 ride | nmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 incomprehensible | punct |
| 43 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 47 incomprehensible | nsubj |
| 44 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 incomprehensible | cop |
| 45 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 47 incomprehensible | advmod |
| 46 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 47 incomprehensible | advmod |
| 47 | incomprehensible | incomprehensible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 gallery | conj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | boy | the boy | between boy's knees | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument boy=Destination | |||
| 2 | question speech: other | past | boy not said here | boy | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | hear | past | boy | the whole story | broken sentences | soon property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus | ||
| 5 | is | past | the picture gallery | certainly, incomprehensible property | tree rules |
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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