Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 83
Hunger and thirst overpowered the child, and he became quite faint and ill.
Who acts: Hunger, boy · What happens: overpower, become · To what, where: child
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 (Hunger, 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 | Hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 overpowered | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 thirst | cc |
| 3 | thirst | thirst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hunger | conj |
| 4 | overpowered | overpower | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 child | det |
| 6 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 overpowered | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 became | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 became | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 became | nsubj |
| 10 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 overpowered | conj |
| 11 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 12 faint | advmod |
| 12 | faint | faint | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 became | xcomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 ill | cc |
| 14 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 faint | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 overpowered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overpower | past | Hunger and thirst | the child | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | become | past | boy | faint property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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