Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 3

The bright color has been changed by age to dark green; but clear, fresh water pours from the snout, which shines as if it had been polished, and so indeed it has, for hundreds of poor people and children seize it in their hands as they place their mouths close to the mouth of the animal, to drink.

Who acts: age, clear fresh water, snout, water, hundreds · What happens: change, pour, shine, polish, have, seize · To what, where: bright color, snout, water, hands

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 (age, clear fresh water, snout, water), 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	3 color	det
2	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 color	amod
3	color	color	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 changed	nsubj:pass
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 changed	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 changed	aux:pass
6	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 age	case
8	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 changed	obl
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 green	case
10	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 green	amod
11	green	green	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 changed	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 pours	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 pours	cc
14	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 water	amod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 clear	punct
16	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 water	amod
17	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 pours	nsubj
18	pours	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 changed	conj
19	from	from	ADP	_	21 snout	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 snout	det
21	snout	snout	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 pours	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 shines	punct
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 shines	nsubj
24	shines	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 snout	acl:relcl
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 polished	mark
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	30 polished	mark
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 polished	nsubj:pass
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 polished	aux
29	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 polished	aux:pass
30	polished	polish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 shines	advcl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 has	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 has	cc
33	so	so	ADV	_	36 has	advmod
34	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	36 has	advmod
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 has	nsubj
36	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 pours	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 hundreds	punct
38	for	for	ADP	_	39 hundreds	case
39	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 seize	nsubj
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 people	case
41	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 people	amod
42	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 hundreds	nmod
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 children	cc
44	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 people	conj
45	seize	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 has	parataxis
46	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 seize	obj
47	in	in	ADP	_	49 hands	case
48	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 hands	nmod:poss
49	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 seize	obl
50	as	as	ADP	_	52 place	case
51	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 place	nsubj
52	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 seize	obl
53	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 mouths	nmod:poss
54	mouths	mouth	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 place	conj
55	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 mouths	amod
56	to	to	ADP	_	58 mouth	case
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 mouth	det
58	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 close	obl
59	of	of	ADP	_	61 animal	case
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 animal	det
61	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 mouth	nmod
62	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 drink	punct
63	to	to	PART	_	64 drink	mark
64	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 seize	conj
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 changed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	change	present · perfect · passive	age	the bright color		to dark green	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
2	pour	present	clear fresh water		the snout		vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from snout=Source
3	shine	present	the snout				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	polish	past · perfect · passive		water			vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination
5	have	present	water			indeed property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	seize	present	hundreds of poor people and children	water	hundreds's hands	as place and hundreds's mouths	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
7	drink	to-infinitive	hundreds of poor people and children not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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