Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 70
This pot she took in her lap, warmed her fingers, and pushed the boy with her elbow.
Who acts: pot · What happens: take, warm, push · To what, where: lap, fingers, 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 (pot), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 pot | det |
| 2 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 lap | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 lap | nmod:poss |
| 7 | lap | lap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 warmed | punct |
| 9 | warmed | warm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 11 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 warmed | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 pushed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 pushed | cc |
| 14 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 boy | det |
| 16 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pushed | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 elbow | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 elbow | nmod:poss |
| 19 | elbow | elbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pushed | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | this pot | pot's lap | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in lap=Location | ||||
| 2 | warm | past | this pot not said here | pot's fingers | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent finger=Patient | ||||
| 3 | push | past | this pot not said here | the boy | with pot's elbow | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=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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