Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), sentence 71
The metal, glowing with heat, flowed into the mould, and formed the head and bust of the statue which was unveiled in the square in front of the old castle.
Who acts: metal · What happens: glow, flow, form, unveil, bust · To what, where: heat, mould, head, statue, square
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (metal), 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 metal | det |
| 2 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 formed | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 glowing | punct |
| 4 | glowing | glow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 metal | acl |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 heat | case |
| 6 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 glowing | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 flowed | punct |
| 8 | flowed | flow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 heat | acl |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 mould | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 mould | det |
| 11 | mould | mould | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flowed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 formed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 formed | cc |
| 14 | formed | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 head | det |
| 16 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 formed | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 bust | cc |
| 18 | bust | bust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 head | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 statue | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 statue | det |
| 21 | statue | statue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bust | nmod |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 unveiled | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 unveiled | aux:pass |
| 24 | unveiled | unveil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 statue | acl:relcl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 square | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 square | det |
| 27 | square | square | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 unveiled | obl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 front | case |
| 29 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 unveiled | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 castle | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 castle | det |
| 32 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 castle | amod |
| 33 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 front | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 formed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glow | gerund | the metal not said here | with heat | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with heat=Theme | ||||
| 2 | flow | participle | heat not said here | the mould | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | form | past | the metal | the head and bust of the statue | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location head=Theme | ||||
| 4 | unveil | past · passive | the statue | the square | in front of the old castle | tree rules | |||
| 5 | bust | the statue | nom bust «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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