Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 98
Look what delicate fingers he has got; Madonna intended him for a glovemaker."
Who acts: you, Giuseppe, Madonna · What happens: look, get, intend · To what, where: delicate fingers, 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 (you, Giuseppe, Madonna), 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 | Look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 1 Look | obl |
| 3 | delicate | delicate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fingers | amod |
| 4 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 what | nsubj |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 got | nsubj |
| 6 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 got | aux |
| 7 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 fingers | acl:relcl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 intended | punct |
| 9 | Madonna | Madonna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 intended | nsubj |
| 10 | intended | intend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Look | parataxis |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 intended | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 glovemaker | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 glovemaker | det |
| 14 | glovemaker | glovemaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 intended | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Look | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | imperative | you not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | get | present · perfect | Giuseppe | delicate fingers not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer finger=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | intend | past | Madonna | Giuseppe | for a glovemaker | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic |
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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