Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 185

The smaller of the two represented a little boy sitting at a table, drawing; before him was a little white poodle, curiously shaven; but as the animal would not stand still, it had been fastened with a string to its head and tail, to keep it in one position.

Who acts: little boy, boy · What happens: represent, sit, draw, be, not stand, fasten · To what, where: little boy, table, little white poodle, picture, one position

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 (little boy, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 smaller	det
2	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 represented	advmod
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 two	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 two	det
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 represented	obl
6	represented	represent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 boy	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 boy	amod
9	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 represented	obj
10	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 boy	acl
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 table	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 table	det
13	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sitting	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 drawing	punct
15	drawing	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 sitting	conj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 poodle	punct
17	before	before	SCONJ	_	23 poodle	mark
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 poodle	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 poodle	cop
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 poodle	det
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 poodle	amod
22	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 poodle	amod
23	poodle	poodle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 represented	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 shaven	punct
25	curiously	curiously	ADV	_	26 shaven	advmod
26	shaven	shaven	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 poodle	conj
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 stand	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 stand	cc
29	as	as	ADP	_	31 animal	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 animal	det
31	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 stand	obl
32	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 stand	aux
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 stand	advmod
34	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 represented	parataxis
35	still	still	ADV	_	34 stand	advmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 fastened	punct
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 fastened	nsubj:pass
38	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 fastened	aux
39	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	40 fastened	aux:pass
40	fastened	fasten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 stand	conj
41	with	with	ADP	_	43 string	case
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 string	det
43	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 fastened	obl
44	to	to	ADP	_	46 head	case
45	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 head	nmod:poss
46	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 fastened	obl
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 tail	cc
48	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 head	conj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 keep	punct
50	to	to	PART	_	51 keep	mark
51	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	34 stand	conj
52	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 keep	obj
53	in	in	ADP	_	55 position	case
54	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	55 position	nummod
55	position	position	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 keep	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 represented	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	represent	past		a little boy			of the two	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot boy=Theme
2	sit	gerund	a little boy not said here		a table			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at table=Location
3	draw	gerund	a little boy not said here					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past	boy	a little white poodle				tree rules
5	be		boy not said here				curiously property	tree rules
6	not stand	would				still	as the animal	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	fasten	past · perfect · passive		picture			with a string; to picture's head and tail	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with string=Instrument to head=Co-Patient
8	keep	to-infinitive		picture	one position			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in position=Location

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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