Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 178
"You wicked boy! the poor little creature!" was all she could utter.
Who acts: Bellissima · What happens: be · To what, where: wicked 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 (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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 boy | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 boy | nsubj |
| 3 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 boy | amod |
| 4 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 creature | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 creature | det |
| 7 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 creature | amod |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 creature | amod |
| 9 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 boy | nmod |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 creature | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 creature | punct |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 utter | cop |
| 13 | all | all | ADV | _ | 16 utter | advmod |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 utter | nsubj |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 utter | aux |
| 16 | utter | utter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 boy | acl:relcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 boy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | could · past | Bellissima | wicked boy the poor little creature not said here | all, utter property | tree rules |
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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