Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Money-box, sentence 3
In the back of the pig was a slit, and this slit had been enlarged with a knife, so that dollars, or crown pieces, might slip through; and, indeed there were two in the box, besides a number of pence.
Who acts: pieces, two · What happens: be, enlarge, crown, slip through, beside · To what, where: slit, back, pieces, number
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 (pieces, two), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 back | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 back | det |
| 3 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 slit | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 pig | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 pig | det |
| 6 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 back | nmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 slit | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 slit | det |
| 9 | slit | slit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 enlarged | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 enlarged | cc |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 slit | det |
| 13 | slit | slit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 enlarged | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 enlarged | aux |
| 15 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 enlarged | aux:pass |
| 16 | enlarged | enlarge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 slit | parataxis |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 knife | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 knife | det |
| 19 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 enlarged | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 dollars | punct |
| 21 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 23 dollars | case |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 so | fixed |
| 23 | dollars | dollar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 enlarged | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 crown | punct |
| 25 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 26 crown | cc |
| 26 | crown | crown | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 enlarged | conj |
| 27 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 crown | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 slip | punct |
| 29 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 slip | aux |
| 30 | slip | slip | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 pieces | acl:relcl |
| 31 | through | through | ADV | _ | 30 slip | advmod |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 43 besides | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 besides | cc |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 were | punct |
| 35 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 37 were | advmod |
| 36 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 37 were | expl |
| 37 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 besides | parataxis |
| 38 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 37 were | nsubj |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 box | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 box | det |
| 41 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 two | nmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 were | punct |
| 43 | besides | beside | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 slit | parataxis |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 number | det |
| 45 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 besides | obj |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 pence | case |
| 47 | pence | pence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 number | nmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 slit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a slit | the back of the pig | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | enlarge | past · perfect · passive | this slit | with a knife; so dollars | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with knife=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | crown | infinitive | pieces | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme | |||||
| 4 | slip through | might | pieces not said here | through property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | be | past | two in the box | there | indeed property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 6 | beside | present | a number of pence | tree rules |
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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