Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 167
The first leisure moment during the next day, the boy got a pencil, and on the back of one of the other drawings he attempted to copy the drawing of the Metal Pig, and he succeeded.
Who acts: first leisure moment, boy, Metal Pig · What happens: get, attempt, copy, succeed, draw · To what, where: pencil, other drawings, drawing
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 (first leisure moment, boy, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 moment | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 moment | amod |
| 3 | leisure | leisure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 moment | amod |
| 4 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 got | nsubj |
| 5 | during | during | ADP | _ | 8 day | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 day | det |
| 7 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 day | amod |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 moment | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 moment | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 boy | det |
| 11 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 got | nsubj |
| 12 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 pencil | det |
| 14 | pencil | pencil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 got | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 one | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 one | cc |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 back | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 back | det |
| 19 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 one | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 one | case |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 got | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 drawings | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 drawings | det |
| 24 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 drawings | amod |
| 25 | drawings | drawing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 one | nmod |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 attempted | nsubj |
| 27 | attempted | attempt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 drawings | acl:relcl |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 copy | mark |
| 29 | copy | copy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 attempted | xcomp |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 drawing | det |
| 31 | drawing | drawing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 copy | obj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 Pig | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Pig | det |
| 34 | Metal | Metal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Pig | compound |
| 35 | Pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 drawing | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 succeeded | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 succeeded | cc |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 succeeded | nsubj |
| 39 | succeeded | succeed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 got | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | the first leisure moment during the next day | a pencil | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pencil=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | attempt | past | boy | the other drawings not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | copy not said to happen | to-infinitive | boy not said here | the drawing of the Metal Pig | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drawing=Theme | ||||
| 4 | succeed | past | boy | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | draw | the Metal Pig | nom drawing «communication intransitive»: of=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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