Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 1

In the city of Florence, not far from the Piazza del Granduca, runs a little street called Porta Rosa.

What happens: run, call · To what, where: little street, city · Speech: someone speaks here

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: 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 city	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 city	det
3	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 runs	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Florence	case
5	Florence	Florence	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 city	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 far	punct
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 far	advmod
8	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 runs	advmod
9	from	from	ADP	_	13 Granduca	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Granduca	det
11	Piazza	Piazza	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 del	compound
12	del	Del	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Granduca	compound
13	Granduca	Granduca	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 far	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 far	punct
15	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 street	det
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 street	amod
18	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 runs	obj
19	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 street	acl
20	Porta	Porta	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Rosa	compound
21	Rosa	Rosa	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 called	xcomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 runs	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	present		a little street		the city of Florence		far property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent street=Theme in city=Trajectory
2	call	participle		a little street not said here					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: 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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