Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 17

The metallic groups of figures, among which were Perseus and the Rape of the Sabines, looked like living persons, and cries of terror sounded from them all across the noble square.

Who acts: metallic groups, cries, terror · What happens: be, look, sound, cry · To what, where: Perseus, noble square

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 (metallic groups, cries, terror), 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	3 groups	det
2	metallic	metallic	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 groups	compound
3	groups	group	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 looked	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 figures	case
5	figures	figure	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 groups	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Perseus	punct
7	among	among	ADP	_	8 which	case
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 Perseus	obl
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 Perseus	cop
10	Perseus	Perseus	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 figures	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 Rape	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Rape	det
13	Rape	Rape	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Perseus	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 Sabines	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Sabines	det
16	Sabines	Sabine	PROPN	Number=Plur	13 Rape	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 looked	punct
18	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	like	like	ADP	_	21 persons	case
20	living	living	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 persons	amod
21	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 looked	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 sounded	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 sounded	cc
24	cries	cry	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 sounded	nsubj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 terror	case
26	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 cries	nmod
27	sounded	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 looked	conj
28	from	from	ADP	_	29 them	case
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 sounded	obl
30	all	all	ADV	_	34 square	advmod
31	across	across	ADP	_	34 square	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 square	det
33	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 square	amod
34	square	square	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 sounded	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Perseus and the Rape of the Sabines		among figures	tree rules
2	look	past	the metallic groups of figures			like living persons	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	sound	past	cries of terror		the noble square	from groups = group	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	cry		terror				nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=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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