Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 176
But Bellissima would not stand still, so she must be bound fast in one position.
Who acts: Bellissima · What happens: not stand, bind · To what, where: Bellissima
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 (Bellissima), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 stand | cc |
| 2 | Bellissima | Bellissima | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 stand | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 stand | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 stand | advmod |
| 5 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | still | still | ADV | _ | 5 stand | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bound | punct |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 bound | advmod |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 bound | nsubj |
| 10 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 bound | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 bound | aux:pass |
| 12 | bound | bind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 stand | conj |
| 13 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 bound | advmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 position | case |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 position | nummod |
| 16 | position | position | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bound | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not stand | would | Bellissima | still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | bind | must · passive | Bellissima | in one position; fast property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in position=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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