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title: But the Metal Pig lay motionless, while the fresh stream gushed fort… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But the Metal Pig lay motionless, while the fresh stream gushed forth from its mouth. Who acts: Metal Pig. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Metal Pig, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 125

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But the Metal Pig lay motionless, while the fresh stream gushed forth from its mouth.

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**Who acts:** Metal Pig · **What happens:** lie, gush · **To what, where:** fresh stream, mouth

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Metal Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Metal Pig), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:89:125
# text = But the Metal Pig lay motionless, while the fresh stream gushed forth from its mouth.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Metal	Metal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	motionless	motionless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	gushed	gush	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | past | the Metal Pig | the fresh stream |  |  |  | motionless *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **gush** | participle |  | the fresh stream *not said here* |  | pig's mouth |  | forth *property* | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from mouth=Source |

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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.

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**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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