Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 160

The painter, however, consoled the little fellow, and tried to soften the lady's anger; but she would not be pacified till her husband returned with Bellissima, who had been with the police.

Who acts: painter, husband, Bellissima, lady · What happens: console, try, soften, not pacify, return, be · To what, where: little fellow, anger, painter

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 (painter, husband, Bellissima, lady), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 painter	det
2	painter	painter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 consoled	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 painter	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	6 consoled	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	consoled	console	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fellow	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fellow	amod
9	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 consoled	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 tried	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 tried	cc
12	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 consoled	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 soften	mark
14	soften	soften	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 tried	xcomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 lady	det
16	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 anger	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 lady	case
18	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 soften	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 pacified	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 pacified	cc
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 pacified	nsubj:pass
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 pacified	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 pacified	advmod
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 pacified	aux:pass
25	pacified	pacify	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 consoled	conj
26	till	till	SCONJ	_	29 returned	mark
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 husband	nmod:poss
28	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 returned	nsubj
29	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 pacified	advcl
30	with	with	ADP	_	31 Bellissima	case
31	Bellissima	Bellissima	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 returned	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 police	punct
33	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 police	nsubj
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 police	aux
35	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	38 police	cop
36	with	with	ADP	_	38 police	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 police	det
38	police	police	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 Bellissima	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 consoled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	console	past	the painter	the little fellow	however property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus fellow=Experiencer
2	try	past	the painter not said here			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	soften not said to happen	to-infinitive	the painter not said here	the lady's anger		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent anger=Patient
4	not pacify	would · passive		painter		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
5	return	past	painter's husband		with Bellissima and the police	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is	past · perfect	Bellissima and the police		with the police	tree rules
7	anger		the lady			nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent

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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