Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 8

He was hungry and thirsty, yet no one gave him anything; and when it became dark, and they were about to close the gardens, the porter turned him out.

Who acts: boy, one, sky, roses, porter · What happens: be, give, become, close, turn out · To what, where: anything, boy, gardens

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, one, sky, roses), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hungry	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hungry	cop
3	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 thirsty	cc
5	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hungry	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 gave	punct
7	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	10 gave	cc
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 one	det
9	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gave	nsubj
10	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hungry	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 gave	iobj
12	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 gave	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 became	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 became	cc
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 became	advmod
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 became	nsubj
17	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hungry	parataxis
18	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 became	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 close	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 close	cc
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 close	nsubj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 close	aux
23	about	about	ADV	_	25 close	advmod
24	to	to	PART	_	25 close	mark
25	close	close	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 became	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 gardens	det
27	gardens	garden	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 close	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 turned	punct
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 porter	det
30	porter	porter	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 turned	nsubj
31	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hungry	conj
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 turned	obj
33	out	out	ADP	_	31 turned	compound:prt
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hungry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	boy			hungry property	tree rules
2	be		boy not said here				tree rules
3	give	past	no one	anything	boy		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient anything=Theme
4	become	past	sky			dark property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	close	past	roses = rose	the gardens		about property	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garden=Patient
6	turn out	past	the porter	boy			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=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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