Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 19
Hold fast," said the animal; "hold fast, for I am going up stairs."
Who acts: you, animal, I · What happens: hold, say, go up · To what, where: stairs · 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 (you, animal, I), 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 | Hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 1 Hold | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hold | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hold | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Hold | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 animal | det |
| 7 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 hold | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 hold | punct |
| 10 | hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Hold | conj |
| 11 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 hold | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 going | punct |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 going | mark |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 going | nsubj |
| 15 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 going | aux |
| 16 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 hold | advcl |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 stairs | case |
| 18 | stairs | stair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 going | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hold | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | imperative | you not said here | fast property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the animal | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | hold | infinitive | you not said here | fast property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go up | present · progressive | I | stairs | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient stair=Extent |
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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