Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 73

"Will you be quiet? or I'll break your screaming head;" and she swung about the fire-pot which she held in her hand, while the boy crouched to the earth and screamed.

Who acts: you, boy, pot, fire pot · What happens: be, break, swing, hold, crouch, scream · To what, where: screaming head, hand · 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 (you, boy, pot, fire 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 quiet	punct
2	Will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 quiet	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 quiet	nsubj
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 quiet	cop
5	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 quiet	punct
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 break	cc
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 break	nsubj
9	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 break	aux
10	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 quiet	conj
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 head	nmod:poss
12	screaming	screaming	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 head	compound
13	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 break	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 quiet	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 quiet	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 swung	cc
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 swung	nsubj
18	swung	swing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 quiet	conj
19	about	about	ADP	_	23 pot	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 pot	det
21	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 pot	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 fire	punct
23	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 swung	obl
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 held	nsubj
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 held	nsubj
26	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 pot	acl:relcl
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 hand	case
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 hand	nmod:poss
29	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 held	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 crouched	punct
31	while	while	SCONJ	_	34 crouched	mark
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 boy	det
33	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 crouched	nsubj
34	crouched	crouch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 swung	conj
35	to	to	ADP	_	37 earth	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 earth	det
37	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 crouched	obl
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 screamed	cc
39	screamed	scream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 crouched	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 quiet	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	future	you			quiet property	tree rules
2	break in a quote	future	the boy = boy	your screaming head			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer head=Patient
3	swing	past	pot			about the fire pot	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme about pot=Trajectory
4	hold	past	the fire pot		pot's hand		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hand=Location
5	crouch	past	the boy			to the earth	vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	scream speech: express	past	the boy not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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