Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 58
Once more he clasped the neck of his metal horse, kissed its nose, and nodded farewell to it.
Who acts: boy · What happens: clasp, kiss, nod · To what, where: neck, nose, farewell
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), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 more | advmod |
| 2 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 clasped | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 clasped | nsubj |
| 4 | clasped | clasp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 neck | det |
| 6 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 clasped | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 horse | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 horse | nmod:poss |
| 9 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 horse | compound |
| 10 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 neck | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 kissed | punct |
| 12 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 clasped | conj |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 nose | nmod:poss |
| 14 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 kissed | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 nodded | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 nodded | cc |
| 17 | nodded | nod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 clasped | conj |
| 18 | farewell | farewell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 nodded | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 nodded | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 clasped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clasp | past | boy | the neck of boy's metal horse | vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neck=Theme | ||||
| 2 | kiss | past | boy not said here | horse's nose | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | nod | past | boy not said here | farewell | farewell | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent farewell=Theme to it=Recipient |
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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