Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 190
It represented a handsome boy, clothed in rags, lying asleep, and leaning against the Metal Pig in the street of the Porta Rosa.
Who acts: picture · What happens: represent, clothe, lie, lean · To what, where: handsome boy, street
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 (picture), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 represented | nsubj |
| 2 | represented | represent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 boy | det |
| 4 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 boy | amod |
| 5 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 represented | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 clothed | punct |
| 7 | clothed | clothe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 boy | acl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 rags | case |
| 9 | rags | rag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 clothed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 lying | punct |
| 11 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 represented | advcl |
| 12 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 lying | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 leaning | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 leaning | cc |
| 15 | leaning | lean | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 represented | advcl |
| 16 | against | against | ADP | _ | 19 Pig | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Pig | det |
| 18 | Metal | Metal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Pig | compound |
| 19 | Pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 leaning | obl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 street | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 street | det |
| 22 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 leaning | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Rosa | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Rosa | det |
| 25 | Porta | Porta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Rosa | compound |
| 26 | Rosa | Rosa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 street | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 represented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | represent | past | picture | a handsome boy | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot boy=Theme | ||||
| 2 | clothe | participle | a handsome boy not said here | in rags | vn dress-41.1.1-1-2 «Passive»: agent=Pivot in rag=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lie | gerund | picture not said here | asleep property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | lean | gerund | picture not said here | the street of the Porta Rosa | against the Metal Pig | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against pig=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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