Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 54

The boy stretched forth his hands towards the light, and at the same moment the Metal Pig started again so rapidly that he was obliged to cling tightly to him.

Who acts: boy, Metal Pig · What happens: stretch, start, oblige, cling · To what, where: hands, boy

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, Metal 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 stretched	nsubj
3	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	forth	forth	ADV	_	3 stretched	advmod
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hands	nmod:poss
6	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stretched	obj
7	towards	towards	ADP	_	9 light	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 light	det
9	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stretched	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 started	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 started	cc
12	at	at	ADP	_	15 moment	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 moment	det
14	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 moment	amod
15	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 started	obl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Pig	det
17	Metal	Metal	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Pig	compound
18	Pig	Pig	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 started	nsubj
19	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stretched	conj
20	again	again	ADV	_	19 started	advmod
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 rapidly	advmod
22	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	_	19 started	advmod
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 obliged	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 obliged	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 obliged	aux:pass
26	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 started	advcl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 cling	mark
28	cling	cling	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 obliged	xcomp
29	tightly	tightly	ADV	_	28 cling	advmod
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 him	case
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 cling	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stretched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	stretch	past	the boy	boy's hands			towards the light; forth property	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient towards light=Recipient
2	start	past	the Metal Pig			again; moment	rapidly property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	oblige	past · passive		boy				vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
4	cling	to-infinitive			boy		tightly property	vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to he=Co-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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