Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Money-box, sentence 4
The money-pig was stuffed so full that it could no longer rattle, which is the highest state of perfection to which a money-pig can attain.
Who acts: pig, rattle, money pig · What happens: stuff, rattle, be, attain · To what, where: money pig, highest state · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (pig, rattle, money pig), 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 pig | det |
| 2 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pig | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 money | punct |
| 4 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stuffed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stuffed | aux:pass |
| 6 | stuffed | stuff | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 full | advmod |
| 8 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 stuffed | xcomp |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 rattle | mark |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 rattle | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 rattle | aux |
| 12 | no | no | ADV | _ | 13 longer | advmod |
| 13 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 rattle | advmod |
| 14 | rattle | rattle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 full | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 state | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 state | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 state | cop |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 state | det |
| 19 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 state | amod |
| 20 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 rattle | acl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 perfection | case |
| 22 | perfection | perfection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 state | nmod |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 which | case |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 attain | obl |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 pig | det |
| 26 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 pig | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 money | punct |
| 28 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 attain | nsubj |
| 29 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 attain | aux |
| 30 | attain | attain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 state | ccomp |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stuffed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stuff | past · passive | the money pig | full property | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination | ||||
| 2 | rattle | could | pig | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be speech: other | present | rattle | the highest state | of perfection | tree rules | |||
| 4 | attain | can | a money pig | to the highest state | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: 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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