Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 174
She was soon represented on paper, and it was the glovemaker's boy who placed her there.
Who acts: paper, boy · What happens: represent, be, place · To what, where: Justice, paper, boy
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 (paper, boy), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 represented | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 represented | aux:pass |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 represented | advmod |
| 4 | represented | represent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 paper | case |
| 6 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 represented | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 boy | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 boy | cc |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 boy | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 boy | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 glovemaker | det |
| 12 | glovemaker | glovemaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 boy | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 glovemaker | case |
| 14 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 represented | advcl |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 placed | nsubj |
| 16 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 boy | acl:relcl |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 placed | obj |
| 18 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 placed | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 represented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | represent | past · passive | Justice | paper | soon property | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a | past | paper | the glovemaker's boy | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | place | past | the glovemaker's boy | Justice | there | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent she=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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