Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 14

"I cannot very well describe it," said the sculptor; "but you enter on a large open space, in the centre of which stands an obelisk, which is a thousand years old."

Who acts: sculptor, you, centre, obelisk · What happens: not describe, say, enter, stand, be · To what, where: city, large open space, obelisk · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sculptor, you, centre, obelisk), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 describe	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 describe	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 describe	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 describe	advmod
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 well	advmod
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 describe	advmod
7	describe	describe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 describe	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 describe	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 describe	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sculptor	det
13	sculptor	sculptor	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 enter	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 but	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 enter	cc
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 enter	nsubj
18	enter	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	conj
19	on	on	ADP	_	23 space	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 space	det
21	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 space	amod
22	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 space	amod
23	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 enter	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 centre	punct
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 centre	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 centre	det
27	centre	centre	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 space	appos
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 which	case
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 stands	nsubj
30	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 centre	acl:relcl
31	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 obelisk	det
32	obelisk	obelisk	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 stands	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 old	punct
34	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 old	nsubj
35	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 old	cop
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 thousand	det
37	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 years	nummod
38	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 old	obl:unmarked
39	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 obelisk	amod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not describe in a quote	can	the sculptor = sculptor	city			well property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the sculptor					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	enter in a quote	present	you		a large open space			vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	stand in a quote	present	the centre	a obelisk				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer obelisk=Stimulus
5	is in a quote	present	a obelisk			year	old property	tree rules

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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