Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Money-box, sentence 2
It was made of clay in the shape of a pig, and had been bought of the potter.
What happens: make, buy · To what, where: box
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: 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | aux:pass |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 clay | case |
| 5 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 shape | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 shape | det |
| 8 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 clay | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 pig | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 pig | det |
| 11 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shape | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 bought | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 bought | cc |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 bought | aux |
| 15 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 bought | aux:pass |
| 16 | bought | buy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 made | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 potter | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 potter | det |
| 19 | potter | potter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bought | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · passive | box | of clay in the shape of a pig | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | buy | past · perfect · passive | of the potter | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S» |
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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