Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 176
Up on the roof stood a metal chariot drawn by metal horses, and the goddess of Victory, also of metal, was driving.
What happens: stand, draw, drive · To what, where: metal chariot, roof
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families. 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 | Up | up | ADV | _ | 5 stood | advmod |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 roof | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 roof | det |
| 4 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | obl |
| 5 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 chariot | det |
| 7 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 chariot | compound |
| 8 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | obj |
| 9 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 chariot | acl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 horses | case |
| 11 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 horses | compound |
| 12 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 drawn | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 goddess | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 goddess | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 goddess | det |
| 16 | goddess | goddess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Victory | case |
| 18 | Victory | Victory | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 goddess | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 driving | punct |
| 20 | also | also | ADV | _ | 25 driving | advmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 metal | case |
| 22 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 driving | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 metal | punct |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 driving | aux |
| 25 | driving | drive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 stood | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | a metal chariot | the roof | the goddess of Victory obl | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent chariot=Theme on roof=Destination | |||
| 2 | draw | participle | a metal chariot not said here | by metal horses | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | drive | past · progressive | of metal | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent of metal=Trajectory |
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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