Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 4

It is quite a picture to see a half-naked boy clasping the well-formed creature by the head, as he presses his rosy lips against its jaws.

Who acts: color, half naked boy, boy · What happens: be, see, clasp, form, press · To what, where: picture, half naked boy, formed creature, rosy lips

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 (color, half naked boy, boy), 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	5 picture	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 picture	cop
3	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	5 picture	det:predet
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 picture	det
5	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 see	mark
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 picture	acl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 boy	det
9	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	12 boy	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 half	punct
11	naked	naked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 boy	amod
12	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 see	obj
13	clasping	clasp	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 boy	acl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 creature	det
15	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 formed	advmod
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 well	punct
17	formed	form	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 creature	amod
18	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 clasping	obj
19	by	by	ADP	_	21 head	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 head	det
21	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 clasping	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 presses	punct
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 presses	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 presses	nsubj
25	presses	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 picture	parataxis
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 lips	nmod:poss
27	rosy	rosy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 lips	amod
28	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 presses	obj
29	against	against	ADP	_	31 jaws	case
30	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 jaws	nmod:poss
31	jaws	jaw	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 presses	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 picture	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	color	quite picture		tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive		a half naked boy		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer boy=Stimulus
3	clasp	gerund	a half naked boy not said here	the formed creature	by the head	vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent creature=Theme
4	form	participle			well property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	press	present	boy	boy's rosy lips	against color's jaws	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lip=Theme

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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