Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 56
It was morning; the Metal Pig stood in its old place on the Porta Rosa, and the boy found he had slipped nearly off its back.
Who acts: creak, Metal Pig, boy · What happens: be, stand, find, slip · To what, where: morning, old place · 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 (creak, Metal Pig, 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 | 3 morning | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 morning | cop |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stood | obl |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 morning | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Pig | det |
| 6 | Metal | metal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Pig | amod |
| 7 | Pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stood | nsubj |
| 8 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 place | case |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 place | nmod:poss |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 place | amod |
| 12 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stood | obl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 Rosa | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Rosa | det |
| 15 | Porta | Porta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Rosa | compound |
| 16 | Rosa | Rosa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 place | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 found | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 found | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 boy | det |
| 20 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 found | nsubj |
| 21 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 stood | conj |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 slipped | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 slipped | aux |
| 24 | slipped | slip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 found | ccomp |
| 25 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 28 back | advmod |
| 26 | off | off | ADP | _ | 28 back | case |
| 27 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 back | nmod:poss |
| 28 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 slipped | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | creak | morning | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | the Metal Pig | creak's old place on the Porta Rosa | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in place=Location | ||||
| 3 | find | past | the boy | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | slip | past · perfect | boy | off creak's back | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient off back=Co-Patient |
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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