Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 5

Every one who visits Florence can very quickly find the place; he has only to ask the first beggar he meets for the Metal Pig, and he will be told where it is.

Who acts: one, Florence, place · What happens: visit, find, have, ask, meet, tell · To what, where: Florence, place, first beggar · 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 (one, Florence, place), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 find	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 visits	nsubj
4	visits	visit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 one	acl:relcl
5	Florence	Florence	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 visits	obj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 find	aux
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 quickly	advmod
8	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	9 find	advmod
9	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 place	det
11	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 find	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 has	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 has	nsubj
14	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 find	parataxis
15	only	only	ADV	_	17 ask	advmod
16	to	to	PART	_	17 ask	mark
17	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 has	xcomp
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 beggar	det
19	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	20 beggar	amod
20	beggar	beggar	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ask	obj
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 meets	nsubj
22	meets	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 beggar	acl:relcl
23	for	for	ADP	_	26 Pig	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Pig	det
25	Metal	Metal	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Pig	compound
26	Pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 meets	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 told	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 told	cc
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 told	nsubj
30	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 told	aux
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 told	aux:pass
32	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 has	conj
33	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	35 is	advmod
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 is	nsubj
35	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 told	ccomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 find	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	visit	present	every one	Florence		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent florence=Co-Agent
2	find	can	every one	the place	quickly property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Topic
3	have	present	Florence			tree rules
4	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	Florence not said here	the first beggar		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent beggar=Recipient
5	meet	present	Florence	the first beggar not said here	for the Metal Pig	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beggar=Co-Agent
6	tell speech: assert	future · passive		Florence		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
7	be	present	place			vn exist-47.1 «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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