Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 162

Oh, what beautiful pictures these were!--figures with funny heads; and, above all, the Metal Pig was there too.

Who acts: these, Metal Pig · What happens: be

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 (these, Metal Pig), 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	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	3 what	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Oh	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
4	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 pictures	amod
5	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 these	nsubj
6	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 what	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 what	cop
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 what	punct
9	--	--	PUNCT	_	10 figures	punct
10	figures	figure	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 what	appos
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 heads	case
12	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 heads	amod
13	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 figures	nmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 all	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 all	cc
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 all	punct
17	above	above	ADP	_	18 all	case
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 what	appos
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 there	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Pig	det
21	Metal	Metal	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Pig	compound
22	Pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 there	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 there	cop
24	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 all	nmod
25	too	too	ADV	_	24 there	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 what	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	these						tree rules
2	is	past	the Metal Pig					there 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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