Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 7

In the garden of the grand duke's palace, under the roof of one of the wings, where a thousand roses bloom in winter, a little ragged boy had been sitting the whole day long; a boy, who might serve as a type of Italy, lovely and smiling, and yet still suffering.

Who acts: thousand roses, little ragged boy, boy · What happens: bloom, sit, serve, smile, suffer, type · To what, where: boy, garden, Italy

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 (thousand roses, little ragged boy, 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 garden	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 garden	det
3	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 sitting	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	9 palace	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 duke	det
6	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 duke	amod
7	duke	duke	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 palace	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 duke	case
9	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 garden	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 roof	punct
11	under	under	ADP	_	13 roof	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 roof	det
13	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 garden	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 one	case
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 roof	nmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 wings	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 wings	det
18	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 one	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 bloom	punct
20	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	24 bloom	advmod
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 thousand	det
22	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 roses	nummod
23	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 bloom	nsubj
24	bloom	bloom	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 wings	acl:relcl
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 winter	case
26	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bloom	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 garden	punct
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 boy	det
29	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 boy	amod
30	ragged	ragged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 boy	amod
31	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 sitting	nsubj
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 sitting	aux
33	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	34 sitting	aux
34	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 day	det
36	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 day	amod
37	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 sitting	obl:unmarked
38	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	34 sitting	advmod
39	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 boy	punct
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 boy	det
41	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 sitting	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 serve	punct
43	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 serve	nsubj
44	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 serve	aux
45	serve	serve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 boy	acl:relcl
46	as	as	ADP	_	48 type	case
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 type	det
48	type	type	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 serve	obl
49	of	of	ADP	_	50 Italy	case
50	Italy	Italy	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 type	nmod
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 lovely	punct
52	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 type	appos
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 smiling	cc
54	smiling	smile	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	52 lovely	conj
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 suffering	punct
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 suffering	cc
57	yet	yet	ADV	_	59 suffering	advmod
58	still	still	ADV	_	59 suffering	advmod
59	suffering	suffer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 sitting	conj
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	34 sitting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bloom	present	thousand roses			winter		vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sit	past · perfect · progressive	a little ragged boy	a boy	the garden of the grand duke's palace and the roof of one of the wings	day	long property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in garden=Location
3	serve	might	a boy				as a type of Italy	vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as type=Attribute
4	smile	gerund	a boy not said here					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	suffer	gerund	a little ragged boy not said here			yet; still		vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	type			Italy				nom type «cognition transitive»: of=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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