Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 175

His collection of pictures increased; but as yet they were only copies of lifeless objects, when one day Bellissima came gambolling before him: "Stand still," cried he, "and I will draw you beautifully, to put amongst my collection."

Who acts: orders, one day, boy · What happens: increase, be, come, stand, cry, draw · To what, where: pictures, gambolling, boy, you, collection · 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 (orders, one day, 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 collection	nmod:poss
2	collection	collection	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 pictures	case
4	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 collection	nmod
5	increased	increase	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 pictures	acl
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 copies	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 copies	cc
8	as	as	ADP	_	13 copies	case
9	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	13 copies	cc
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 copies	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 copies	cop
12	only	only	ADV	_	13 copies	advmod
13	copies	copy	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 collection	appos
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 objects	case
15	lifeless	lifeless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 objects	amod
16	objects	object	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 copies	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 came	punct
18	when	when	SCONJ	_	22 came	mark
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 day	nummod
20	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 came	nsubj
21	Bellissima	Bellissima	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 day	appos
22	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 objects	acl:relcl
23	gambolling	gambolling	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 came	obj
24	before	before	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 gambolling	nmod
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	28 Stand	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 Stand	punct
28	Stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	23 gambolling	parataxis
29	still	still	ADV	_	28 Stand	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 cried	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 cried	punct
32	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 Stand	advcl
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 cried	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 cried	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 Stand	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 draw	cc
37	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 draw	nsubj
38	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 draw	aux
39	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 Stand	conj
40	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	39 draw	obj
41	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	_	39 draw	advmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 put	punct
43	to	to	PART	_	44 put	mark
44	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	28 Stand	conj
45	amongst	amongst	ADP	_	47 collection	case
46	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 collection	nmod:poss
47	collection	collection	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 put	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 copies	punct
49	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 collection	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	increase	participle		pictures not said here				vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	is	past	orders = order				as copies; of lifeless objects	tree rules
3	come	past	one day	gambolling		before boy		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gambolling=Theme
4	stand in a quote	infinitive				still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	cry speech: express	past		boy				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic
6	draw in a quote	future	boy	you			beautifully property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
7	put in a quote	to-infinitive			my collection			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent amongst collection=Destination

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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