Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 192
The child's arms were round the neck of the Pig, and he was in a deep sleep.
Who acts: arms, spectator · What happens: be · To what, where: deep sleep
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 (arms, spectator), 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 child | det |
| 2 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 arms | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 child | case |
| 4 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 neck | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 neck | cop |
| 6 | round | round | ADP | _ | 8 neck | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 neck | det |
| 8 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Pig | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Pig | det |
| 11 | Pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 neck | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sleep | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 sleep | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 sleep | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 sleep | cop |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 sleep | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 sleep | det |
| 18 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 sleep | amod |
| 19 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 neck | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 neck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the child's arms | round the neck and a deep sleep; of the Pig | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | spectator | a deep sleep | 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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