Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 168

Certainly it was rather crooked, rather up and down, one leg thick, and another thin; still it was like the copy, and he was overjoyed at what he had done.

Who acts: pencil, one leg, leg · What happens: be, overjoy, do · To what, where: leg

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 (pencil, one leg, leg), 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	Certainly	certainly	ADV	_	5 crooked	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 crooked	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 crooked	cop
4	rather	rather	ADV	_	5 crooked	advmod
5	crooked	crooked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 up	punct
7	rather	rather	ADV	_	8 up	advmod
8	up	up	ADV	_	5 crooked	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 down	cc
10	down	down	ADV	_	8 up	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 thick	punct
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 leg	nummod
13	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 thick	nsubj
14	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 crooked	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 thin	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 thin	cc
17	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	18 thin	det
18	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 crooked	conj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 copy	punct
20	still	still	ADV	_	25 copy	advmod
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 copy	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 copy	cop
23	like	like	ADP	_	25 copy	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 copy	det
25	copy	copy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 crooked	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 overjoyed	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 overjoyed	cc
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 overjoyed	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 overjoyed	aux:pass
30	overjoyed	overjoy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 crooked	conj
31	at	at	ADP	_	32 what	case
32	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 overjoyed	obl
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 done	nsubj
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 done	aux
35	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 what	acl:relcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 crooked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	pencil			certainly, crooked property	tree rules
2	be		one leg				tree rules
3	be		pencil not said here				tree rules
4	is	past	pencil		still	like the copy	tree rules
5	overjoy	past · passive		leg			tree rules
6	do	past · perfect	leg				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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