Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 36
On this picture the boy's eyes rested longer than on any other: the Metal Pig stood still before it.
Who acts: eyes, Metal Pig · What happens: rest, stand · To what, where: picture
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 (eyes, Metal Pig), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 picture | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 picture | det |
| 3 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rested | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 boy | det |
| 5 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 boy | case |
| 7 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 rested | nsubj |
| 8 | rested | rest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 rested | advmod |
| 10 | than | than | ADP | _ | 13 other | case |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 other | case |
| 12 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 other | det |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 longer | obl |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 stood | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Pig | det |
| 16 | Metal | Metal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Pig | compound |
| 17 | Pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stood | nsubj |
| 18 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 rested | conj |
| 19 | still | still | ADV | _ | 18 stood | advmod |
| 20 | before | before | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 stood | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 rested | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rest | past | the boy's eyes | this picture | long property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on picture=Location | |||
| 2 | stand | past | the Metal Pig | picture | still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before it=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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