Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 169
The pencil would not go quite as it ought,--he had found that out; but the next day he tried again.
Who acts: pencil, leg · What happens: not go, find out, try · To what, where: that
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, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 pencil | det |
| 2 | pencil | pencil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 go | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 go | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 go | advmod |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 9 ought | advmod |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 ought | mark |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 ought | nsubj |
| 9 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 go | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 found | punct |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 found | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 found | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 found | aux |
| 14 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 go | conj |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 found | obj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 found | compound:prt |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 tried | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 tried | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 day | det |
| 20 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 day | amod |
| 21 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 tried | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 tried | nsubj |
| 23 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 go | parataxis |
| 24 | again | again | ADV | _ | 23 tried | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go | would | the pencil | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | find out | past · perfect | leg | that | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Topic | ||||
| 3 | try | past | leg | again; day | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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