Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 87

After hearing his answers, the old man took him home to a small house close by, in a back street.

Who acts: old man, boy · What happens: hear, take, answer · To what, where: answers, boy, back street

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 (old man, 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	2 hearing	mark
2	hearing	hear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 took	advcl
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 answers	nmod:poss
4	answers	answer	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hearing	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 hearing	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 man	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	amod
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 took	nsubj
9	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 took	obj
11	home	home	ADV	_	9 took	advmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	15 house	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 house	det
14	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 house	amod
15	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 took	obl
16	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 house	amod
17	by	by	ADP	_	16 close	fixed
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 street	punct
19	in	in	ADP	_	22 street	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 street	det
21	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 street	compound
22	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 took	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	gerund	the old man not said here	boy's answers			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer answer=Stimulus
2	take	past	the old man	boy	a back street	to a small house; home property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to house=Destination
3	answer		boy				nom answer «communication transitive»: poss=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/89/87/