Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 92

A little homely bed was prepared for him, but to him who had so often slept on the hard stones it was a royal couch, and he slept sweetly and dreamed of the splendid pictures and of the Metal Pig.

Who acts: little homely bed, bed, boy · What happens: be, sleep, dream · To what, where: boy, hard stones, royal couch

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 (little homely bed, bed, 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bed	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bed	amod
3	homely	homely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bed	amod
4	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 prepared	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 prepared	cop
6	prepared	prepared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 prepared	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 slept	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 slept	cc
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 slept	obl
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 slept	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 slept	aux
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 often	advmod
16	often	often	ADV	_	17 slept	advmod
17	slept	sleep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 prepared	conj
18	on	on	ADP	_	21 stones	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 stones	det
20	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 stones	amod
21	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 slept	obl
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 couch	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 couch	cop
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 couch	det
25	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 couch	amod
26	couch	couch	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 stones	acl:relcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 slept	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 slept	cc
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 slept	nsubj
30	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 prepared	parataxis
31	sweetly	sweetly	ADV	_	30 slept	advmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 dreamed	cc
33	dreamed	dream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 slept	conj
34	of	of	ADP	_	37 pictures	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 pictures	det
36	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 pictures	amod
37	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 dreamed	obl
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 Pig	cc
39	of	of	ADP	_	42 Pig	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 Pig	det
41	Metal	Metal	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 Pig	compound
42	Pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 pictures	conj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 prepared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	a little homely bed				for boy; prepared property	tree rules
2	sleep	past · perfect			boy	the hard stones	often property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	bed	a royal couch				tree rules
4	sleep	past	boy				sweetly property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	dream	past	boy not said here				of the splendid pictures and the Metal Pig	vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=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.

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