Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 15
First, they arrived at the Piazza del Granduca, and the metal horse which bears the duke's statue, neighed aloud.
Who acts: mountains · What happens: arrive, neigh · To what, where: Piazza del, metal horse
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 (mountains), 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 | First | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 arrived | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 arrived | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 arrived | nsubj |
| 4 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 del | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 del | det |
| 7 | Piazza | Piazza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 del | compound |
| 8 | del | Del | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 arrived | obl |
| 9 | Granduca | Granduca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 del | flat |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 neighed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 neighed | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 horse | det |
| 13 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 horse | compound |
| 14 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 neighed | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 16 bears | det |
| 16 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 horse | nmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 duke | det |
| 18 | duke | duke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 statue | nmod:poss |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 duke | case |
| 20 | statue | statue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bears | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 neighed | punct |
| 22 | neighed | neigh | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 arrived | conj |
| 23 | aloud | aloud | ADV | _ | 22 neighed | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | mountains = mountain | the Piazza del | first property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | neigh | participle · passive | the metal horse which bears the duke's statue | aloud property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
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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