Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 170

A second pig was drawn by the side of the first, and this looked a hundred times better; and the third attempt was so good, that everybody might know what it was meant to represent.

Who acts: side, this, third attempt, everybody · What happens: draw, look, be, know, mean, represent · To what, where: second pig · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (side, this, third attempt, everybody), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 pig	det
2	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 pig	amod
3	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drawn	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 drawn	aux:pass
5	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 side	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 side	det
8	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drawn	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 first	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 first	det
11	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 side	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 looked	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 looked	cc
14	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 looked	nsubj
15	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 drawn	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 hundred	det
17	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 times	nummod
18	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 better	obl:unmarked
19	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 looked	xcomp
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 good	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 good	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 attempt	det
23	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	24 attempt	amod
24	attempt	attempt	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 good	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 good	cop
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 good	advmod
27	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 drawn	advcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 know	punct
29	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 everybody	det
30	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	32 know	nsubj
31	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 know	aux
32	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 good	conj
33	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	36 meant	nsubj:pass
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 meant	nsubj:pass
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 meant	aux:pass
36	meant	mean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 know	ccomp
37	to	to	PART	_	38 represent	mark
38	represent	represent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 meant	xcomp
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 drawn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	draw	past · passive	the side of the first	a second pig		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	look	past	this		good property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	is	past	the third attempt		good property	tree rules
4	know	might	everybody			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	mean	past · passive				tree rules
6	represent not said to happen	to-infinitive				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: 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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