Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 41
"Thanks to yourself also," replied the Metal Pig; "I have helped you and you have helped me, for it is only when I have an innocent child on my back that I receive the power to run.
Who acts: Thanks, you, pig · What happens: reply, help, be, receive, run · To what, where: Metal Pig, you, Thanks, back · 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 (Thanks, you, 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 Thanks | punct |
| 2 | Thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 yourself | case |
| 4 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 Thanks | nmod |
| 5 | also | also | ADV | _ | 2 Thanks | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Thanks | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Thanks | punct |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Pig | det |
| 10 | Metal | Metal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Pig | compound |
| 11 | Pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 helped | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 helped | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 helped | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 helped | aux |
| 16 | helped | help | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 replied | conj |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 helped | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 helped | cc |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 helped | nsubj |
| 20 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 helped | aux |
| 21 | helped | help | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 helped | conj |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 helped | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 have | punct |
| 24 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 30 have | mark |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 have | nsubj |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 have | cop |
| 27 | only | only | ADV | _ | 30 have | advmod |
| 28 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 have | advmod |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 have | nsubj |
| 30 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 21 helped | conj |
| 31 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 child | det |
| 32 | innocent | innocent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 child | amod |
| 33 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 have | obj |
| 34 | on | on | ADP | _ | 36 back | case |
| 35 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 back | nmod:poss |
| 36 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 child | nmod |
| 37 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 receive | obj |
| 38 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 39 receive | nsubj |
| 39 | receive | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 back | acl:relcl |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 power | det |
| 41 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 receive | obj |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 run | mark |
| 43 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 power | acl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Thanks to yourself | the Metal Pig | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent pig=Topic | ||||
| 2 | help in a quote | present · perfect | Thanks to yourself = thanks | you | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | help in a quote | present · perfect | you | Thanks to yourself = thanks | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | pig | have property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | receive in a quote | present | Thanks to yourself = thanks | my back | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent that=Theme power=Location | ||||
| 6 | run in a quote | to-infinitive | Thanks to yourself = thanks not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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