Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 93
Giuseppe went out the next morning, and the poor child was not glad to see him go, for he knew that the old man was gone to his mother, and that, perhaps, he would have to go back.
Who acts: Giuseppe, poor child · What happens: go out, not be, see, go, know, have · To what, where: that, Giuseppe, old man · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Giuseppe, poor child), 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 | Giuseppe | Giuseppe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 went | compound:prt |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 morning | det |
| 5 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 morning | amod |
| 6 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 glad | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 glad | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 child | det |
| 10 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 child | amod |
| 11 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 glad | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 glad | cop |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 glad | advmod |
| 14 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 went | parataxis |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 see | mark |
| 16 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 glad | xcomp |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 see | obj |
| 18 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 see | xcomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 knew | punct |
| 20 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 22 knew | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 knew | nsubj |
| 22 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 go | parataxis |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 gone | mark |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 man | det |
| 25 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 man | amod |
| 26 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 gone | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 gone | aux:pass |
| 28 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 knew | ccomp |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 mother | case |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 mother | nmod:poss |
| 31 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 gone | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 that | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 that | cc |
| 34 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 went | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 have | punct |
| 36 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 40 have | advmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 have | punct |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 have | nsubj |
| 39 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 have | aux |
| 40 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 went | conj |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 go | mark |
| 42 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 have | xcomp |
| 43 | back | back | ADV | _ | 42 go | advmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | Giuseppe | that | morning | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | not is | past | the poor child | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | the poor child not said here | Giuseppe | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go | infinitive | Giuseppe not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | know | past | Giuseppe | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | go | past · passive | the old man | to Giuseppe's mother | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 7 | have | would | Giuseppe | perhaps property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | go back | to-infinitive | Giuseppe not said here | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: 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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