Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 97
Then she said, "He is a good lad, he shall stay with us, he may become a clever glovemaker, like you.
Who acts: news, Giuseppe · What happens: say, be, stay, become · To what, where: good lad, clever glovemaker · 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 (news, Giuseppe), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 said | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lad | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 lad | punct |
| 6 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 lad | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 lad | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 lad | det |
| 9 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lad | amod |
| 10 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stay | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 stay | nsubj |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 stay | aux |
| 14 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 us | case |
| 16 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 stay | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 become | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 become | nsubj |
| 19 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 become | aux |
| 20 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 stay | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 glovemaker | det |
| 22 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 glovemaker | amod |
| 23 | glovemaker | glovemaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 become | xcomp |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 you | punct |
| 25 | like | like | ADP | _ | 26 you | case |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 become | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | news | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | Giuseppe | a good lad | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | stay in a quote | shall | Giuseppe | with us | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with we=Location | ||||
| 4 | become in a quote | may | Giuseppe | a clever glovemaker | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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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