Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 82
People came and went, mass was performed, but no one noticed the boy, excepting an elderly citizen, who stood still and looked at him for a moment, and then went away like the rest.
Who acts: People, one, elderly citizen · What happens: come, go, perform, notice, except, stand · To what, where: mass, boy, elderly citizen
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 (People, one, elderly citizen), 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 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 went | cc |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 performed | punct |
| 6 | mass | mass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 performed | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 performed | aux:pass |
| 8 | performed | perform | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 went | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 noticed | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 noticed | cc |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 one | det |
| 12 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 noticed | nsubj |
| 13 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 boy | det |
| 15 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 noticed | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 excepting | punct |
| 17 | excepting | except | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 noticed | advcl |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 citizen | det |
| 19 | elderly | elderly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 citizen | amod |
| 20 | citizen | citizen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 excepting | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 stood | punct |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 stood | nsubj |
| 23 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 citizen | acl:relcl |
| 24 | still | still | ADV | _ | 23 stood | advmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 looked | cc |
| 26 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 stood | conj |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 him | case |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 looked | obl |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 moment | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 moment | det |
| 31 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 looked | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 went | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 went | cc |
| 34 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 35 went | advmod |
| 35 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 36 | away | away | ADV | _ | 35 went | advmod |
| 37 | like | like | ADP | _ | 39 rest | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 rest | det |
| 39 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 went | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | People | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go | past | People not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | perform | past · passive | mass | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | notice | past | no one | the boy | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer boy=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | except | gerund | no one not said here | a elderly citizen | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | stand | past | a elderly citizen | still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | look | past | a elderly citizen not said here | moment | at boy | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme | |||
| 8 | go away | past | People not said here | then | like the rest; away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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