Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 57
Fear and trembling came upon him as he thought of his mother; she had sent him out the day before to get some money, he had not done so, and now he was hungry and thirsty.
Who acts: Fear, boy, Rosa · What happens: come, think, send out, get, not do, be · To what, where: boy, money
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 (Fear, boy, Rosa), 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 | Fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 trembling | cc |
| 3 | trembling | trembling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Fear | conj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | obl |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 thought | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 thought | nsubj |
| 9 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | advcl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 mother | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 mother | nmod:poss |
| 12 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thought | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 sent | punct |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 sent | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 sent | aux |
| 16 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 came | parataxis |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 sent | obj |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 sent | compound:prt |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 day | det |
| 20 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sent | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | before | before | ADV | _ | 16 sent | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 get | mark |
| 23 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 sent | advcl |
| 24 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 money | det |
| 25 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 get | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 done | punct |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 done | nsubj |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 done | aux |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 done | advmod |
| 30 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 sent | advcl |
| 31 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 done | advmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 hungry | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 hungry | cc |
| 34 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 37 hungry | advmod |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 hungry | nsubj |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 hungry | cop |
| 37 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 came | parataxis |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 thirsty | cc |
| 39 | thirsty | thirsty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 hungry | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Fear and trembling | upon boy | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon he=Location | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | boy | of boy's mother | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | send out | past · perfect | Rosa | boy | day | before property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||
| 4 | get | to-infinitive | Rosa not said here | some money | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer money=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | not do | past · perfect | boy | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is | past | boy | now | hungry property | tree rules | |||
| 7 | be | boy not said here | tree rules |
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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