Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 96
At first the boy could not hear, for he talked a great deal to his wife, and she nodded and stroked the boy's cheek.
Who acts: boy, news · What happens: not hear, talk, nod, stroke · To what, where: great deal, cheek
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 (boy, 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 first | case |
| 2 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 hear | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 boy | det |
| 4 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hear | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 hear | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 hear | advmod |
| 7 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 talked | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 talked | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 talked | nsubj |
| 11 | talked | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 hear | parataxis |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 deal | det |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 deal | amod |
| 14 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 talked | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 wife | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 wife | nmod:poss |
| 17 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 deal | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 nodded | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 nodded | cc |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 nodded | nsubj |
| 21 | nodded | nod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 talked | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 stroked | cc |
| 23 | stroked | stroke | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 nodded | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 boy | det |
| 25 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 cheek | nmod:poss |
| 26 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 25 boy | case |
| 27 | cheek | cheek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 stroked | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 hear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hear | could | the boy | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | talk | past | boy | a great deal | to boy's wife | tree rules | |||
| 3 | nod | past | news | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | stroke | past | news not said here | the boy's cheek | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cheek=Experiencer |
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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