Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 40

"Thank you, thank you, you beautiful animal," said the little boy, caressing the Metal Pig as it ran down the steps.

Who acts: little boy, pig · What happens: thank, say, caress, run down · To what, where: you, Metal Pig, steps · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (little 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Thank	punct
2	Thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 said	ccomp
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 Thank	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 thank	punct
5	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Thank	parataxis
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 thank	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Thank	punct
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 Thank	obj
9	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 animal	amod
10	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Thank	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Thank	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Thank	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 boy	det
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 boy	amod
16	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 caressing	punct
18	caressing	caress	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 said	advcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Pig	det
20	Metal	Metal	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Pig	compound
21	Pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 caressing	obj
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 ran	mark
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 ran	nsubj
24	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 caressing	advcl
25	down	down	ADP	_	27 steps	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 steps	det
27	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 ran	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	thank speech: thank in a quote	present		you	you	tree rules
2	thank speech: thank in a quote	present			you	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	the little boy			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	caress	gerund	the little boy not said here	the Metal Pig		vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pig=Experiencer
5	run down	past	pig	the steps		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location step=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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