Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 164

By means of a few strokes, it was made to appear on the paper; and even the house that stood behind it had been sketched in.

Who acts: few strokes, picture, house · What happens: mean, make, appear, stand behind, sketch in · To what, where: house, picture, paper

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 (few strokes, picture, house), 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	By	by	ADP	_	2 means	case
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 strokes	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 strokes	det
5	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 strokes	amod
6	strokes	stroke	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 means	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 made	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 made	nsubj:pass
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 made	aux:pass
10	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 strokes	acl:relcl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 appear	mark
12	appear	appear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 made	xcomp
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 paper	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 paper	det
15	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 appear	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 house	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 house	cc
18	even	even	ADV	_	20 house	advmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 house	det
20	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	obl
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 stood	nsubj
22	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 house	acl:relcl
23	behind	behind	ADP	_	27 sketched	mark
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 sketched	nsubj:pass
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 sketched	aux
26	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 sketched	aux:pass
27	sketched	sketch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 stood	advcl
28	in	in	ADP	_	27 sketched	compound:prt
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 means	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	mean	present		the house		of a few strokes	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	make	past · passive	a few strokes not said here	picture			tree rules
3	appear	to-infinitive	picture not said here		the paper		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on paper=Location
4	stand behind	past	the house				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	sketch in	past · perfect · passive		picture			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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