Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 39
The boy raised his hands towards the smiling children, and then the Pig ran off with him through the open vestibule.
Who acts: boy, Pig · What happens: raise, smile, run off · To what, where: hands, open vestibule
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 (boy, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 raised | nsubj |
| 3 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 hands | nmod:poss |
| 5 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 raised | obj |
| 6 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 9 children | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 children | det |
| 8 | smiling | smile | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 children | amod |
| 9 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 raised | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ran | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 ran | cc |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 ran | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Pig | det |
| 14 | Pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ran | nsubj |
| 15 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 raised | conj |
| 16 | off | off | ADP | _ | 15 ran | compound:prt |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 ran | obl |
| 19 | through | through | ADP | _ | 22 vestibule | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 vestibule | det |
| 21 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 vestibule | amod |
| 22 | vestibule | vestibule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ran | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 raised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raise | past | the boy | boy's hands | towards the smiling children | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme towards child=Destination | |||
| 2 | smile | gerund | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | run off | past | the Pig | the open vestibule | then | with boy | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through vestibule=Trajectory |
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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