Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Money-box, sentence 36
The pieces of the money-pig were thrown into the dust-bin, and the next day there stood a new money-pig on the cupboard, but it had not a farthing in its inside yet, and therefore, like the old one, it could not rattle.
Who acts: next day, cupboard · What happens: throw, stand, have, not rattle · To what, where: pieces, dust bin, new money pig, cupboard, farthing, inside
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 (next day, cupboard), 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 | 2 pieces | det |
| 2 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 thrown | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 pig | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 pig | det |
| 5 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pig | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 money | punct |
| 7 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pieces | nmod |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 thrown | aux:pass |
| 9 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 bin | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bin | det |
| 12 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bin | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 dust | punct |
| 14 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thrown | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 stood | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 stood | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 day | det |
| 18 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 day | amod |
| 19 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 stood | nsubj |
| 20 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 stood | advmod |
| 21 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 thrown | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 pig | det |
| 23 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 pig | amod |
| 24 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 pig | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 money | punct |
| 26 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 stood | obj |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 cupboard | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 cupboard | det |
| 29 | cupboard | cupboard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 stood | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 had | punct |
| 31 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 33 had | cc |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 had | nsubj |
| 33 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 thrown | conj |
| 34 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 36 farthing | advmod |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 farthing | det |
| 36 | farthing | farthing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 had | obj |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 inside | case |
| 38 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 inside | nmod:poss |
| 39 | inside | inside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 farthing | nmod |
| 40 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 33 had | advmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 therefore | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 therefore | cc |
| 43 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 9 thrown | advmod |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 one | punct |
| 45 | like | like | ADP | _ | 48 one | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 one | det |
| 47 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 one | amod |
| 48 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thrown | parataxis |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 rattle | punct |
| 50 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 53 rattle | nsubj |
| 51 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 53 rattle | aux |
| 52 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 53 rattle | advmod |
| 53 | rattle | rattle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 thrown | conj |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 thrown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past · passive | the pieces of the money pig | into the dust bin result; therefore property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Theme into bin=Result | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | the next day | a new money pig | the cupboard; there | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pig=Theme on cupboard=Destination | |||
| 3 | have | past | cupboard | a farthing | cupboard's inside | yet | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent farthing=Patient | ||
| 4 | not rattle | could | cupboard | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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