Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 188
The boy had taught himself to draw: it was also said that a young artist, now famous, had discovered talent in the child just as he was about to be sent away for having tied up madame's favorite little dog, and using it as a model.
Who acts: boy, tied madame · What happens: teach, draw, say, discover, be, send away · To what, where: boy, glovemaker, talent · 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 (boy, tied madame), 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 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 taught | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 taught | aux |
| 4 | taught | teach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 taught | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 draw | mark |
| 7 | draw | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 taught | xcomp |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | aux:pass |
| 11 | also | also | ADV | _ | 12 said | advmod |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 taught | conj |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 artist | mark |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 artist | det |
| 15 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 artist | amod |
| 16 | artist | artist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | ccomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 famous | punct |
| 18 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 famous | advmod |
| 19 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 taught | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 discovered | punct |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 discovered | aux |
| 22 | discovered | discover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 famous | conj |
| 23 | talent | talent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 discovered | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 child | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 child | det |
| 26 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 discovered | obl |
| 27 | just | just | ADV | _ | 31 about | advmod |
| 28 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 31 about | mark |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 about | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 about | cop |
| 31 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 discovered | advcl |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 sent | mark |
| 33 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 34 sent | aux:pass |
| 34 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 about | xcomp |
| 35 | away | away | ADV | _ | 34 sent | advmod |
| 36 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 37 having | mark |
| 37 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 34 sent | advcl |
| 38 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 madame | amod |
| 39 | up | up | ADP | _ | 38 tied | compound:prt |
| 40 | madame | madame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 dog | nsubj |
| 41 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 40 madame | case |
| 42 | favorite | favorite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 dog | amod |
| 43 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 dog | amod |
| 44 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 having | ccomp |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 using | punct |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 using | cc |
| 47 | using | use | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 taught | advcl |
| 48 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 using | obj |
| 49 | as | as | ADP | _ | 51 model | case |
| 50 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 51 model | det |
| 51 | model | model | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 using | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 taught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | teach speech: other | past · perfect · passive | the boy | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | draw | to-infinitive | the boy not said here | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past · passive | glovemaker | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 4 | discover | past · perfect | talent | in the child | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent talent=Topic | ||||
| 5 | is | past | boy | about property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | send away | to-infinitive · passive | boy not said here | away property | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP» | ||||
| 7 | have | gerund | boy not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | tie up | participle | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 9 | dog | tied madame | tree rules | ||||||
| 10 | use | gerund | glovemaker | as a model | vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent it=Duration as model=Attribute |
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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