Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Money-box, sentence 17
The little toy theatre was therefore put up in such a way that the money-pig could look directly into it.
Who acts: way · What happens: put up, look · To what, where: little toy theatre, way
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Money-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (way), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 theatre | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 theatre | amod |
| 3 | toy | toy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 theatre | compound |
| 4 | theatre | theatre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 put | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 put | aux:pass |
| 6 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 7 put | advmod |
| 7 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 put | compound:prt |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 way | case |
| 10 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 way | det:predet |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 way | det |
| 12 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 put | obl |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 look | nsubj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 pig | det |
| 15 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pig | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 money | punct |
| 17 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 look | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 look | aux |
| 19 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 way | acl:relcl |
| 20 | directly | directly | ADV | _ | 19 look | advmod |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 look | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put up | past · passive | the little toy theatre | such way | therefore property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in way=Destination | |||
| 2 | look | could | such way | into pig; directly property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into it=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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