Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 94

He wept at the thought, and then he played with the little, lively dog, and kissed it, while the old woman looked kindly at him to encourage him.

Who acts: Giuseppe, old woman · What happens: weep, play, kiss, look, encourage · To what, where: thought, dog, Giuseppe

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, old woman), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wept	nsubj
2	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 thought	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 thought	det
5	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wept	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 played	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 played	cc
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 played	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 played	nsubj
10	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wept	conj
11	with	with	ADP	_	16 dog	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 dog	det
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 dog	amod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 little	punct
15	lively	lively	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 dog	amod
16	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 played	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 kissed	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 kissed	cc
19	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wept	parataxis
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 kissed	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 looked	punct
22	while	while	SCONJ	_	26 looked	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 woman	det
24	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 woman	amod
25	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 looked	nsubj
26	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 kissed	conj
27	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	26 looked	advmod
28	at	at	ADP	_	29 him	case
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 looked	obl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 encourage	mark
31	encourage	encourage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 looked	advcl
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 encourage	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	weep	past	Giuseppe		the thought			vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	play	past	Giuseppe			then	with the little lively dog	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with dog=Co-Agent
3	kiss	past		dog				vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent
4	look	past	the old woman				at Giuseppe; kindly property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme
5	encourage	to-infinitive	the old woman not said here	Giuseppe				vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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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