Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 95
And what news did Giuseppe bring back?
Who acts: news · What happens: bring back
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 (news), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 bring | cc |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 bring | obj |
| 3 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bring | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 bring | aux |
| 5 | Giuseppe | Giuseppe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 bring | nsubj |
| 6 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 bring | advmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring back | past · do-support | news | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent what=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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