Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 85
Towards evening he was awakened by a pull at his sleeve; he started up, and the same old citizen stood before him.
Who acts: pull, boy, same old citizen · What happens: awaken, start up, stand · To what, where: Towards evening
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 (pull, boy, same old 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 | Towards | toward | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 evening | compound |
| 2 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 awakened | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 awakened | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 awakened | aux:pass |
| 5 | awakened | awaken | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 pull | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 pull | det |
| 8 | pull | pull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 awakened | obl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 sleeve | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 sleeve | nmod:poss |
| 11 | sleeve | sleeve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pull | nmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 started | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 started | nsubj |
| 14 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 awakened | parataxis |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 started | compound:prt |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 stood | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 stood | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 citizen | det |
| 19 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 citizen | amod |
| 20 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 citizen | amod |
| 21 | citizen | citizen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stood | nsubj |
| 22 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 started | conj |
| 23 | before | before | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 stood | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 awakened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awaken | past · passive | a pull at boy's sleeve | Towards evening | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | start up | past | boy | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | stand | past | the same old citizen | before boy | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location |
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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