Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 177

He tied her head and tail; but she barked and jumped, and so pulled and tightened the string, that she was nearly strangled; and just then her mistress walked in.

Who acts: boy, Bellissima, mistress · What happens: tie, bark, jump, pull, tighten, strangle · To what, where: head, string, 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 (boy, Bellissima, mistress), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tied	nsubj
2	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 head	nmod:poss
4	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tied	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 tail	cc
6	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 head	conj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 barked	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 barked	cc
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 barked	nsubj
10	barked	bark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 tied	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 jumped	cc
12	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 barked	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 pulled	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 pulled	cc
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 pulled	advmod
16	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 jumped	parataxis
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 tightened	cc
18	tightened	tighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 pulled	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 string	det
20	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tightened	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 strangled	punct
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 strangled	mark
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 strangled	nsubj:pass
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 strangled	aux:pass
25	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	26 strangled	advmod
26	strangled	strangle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 pulled	conj
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 walked	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 walked	cc
29	just	just	ADV	_	30 then	advmod
30	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 walked	advmod
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 mistress	nmod:poss
32	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 walked	nsubj
33	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 tied	conj
34	in	in	ADV	_	33 walked	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	tie	past	boy	Bellissima's head and tail			vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
2	bark	past	Bellissima				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	jump	past	Bellissima not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	pull	participle					vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	tighten	participle		the string			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent string=Patient
6	strangle	past · passive		Bellissima		nearly property	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
7	walk in	past	Bellissima's mistress		then		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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