Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 161
Then there was great rejoicing, and the painter caressed the boy, and gave him a number of pictures.
Who acts: painter · What happens: be, give · To what, where: number, boy
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), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 was | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 caressed | cop |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 rejoicing | amod |
| 5 | rejoicing | rejoicing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 was | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 caressed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 caressed | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 painter | det |
| 9 | painter | painter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 caressed | nsubj |
| 10 | caressed | caress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 boy | det |
| 12 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 caressed | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 gave | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 gave | cc |
| 15 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 caressed | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 gave | iobj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 number | det |
| 18 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gave | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 pictures | case |
| 20 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 number | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 caressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the painter | caress property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | past | the painter not said here | a number of pictures | boy | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient number=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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