Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 173
On the Piazza dell Trinita stands a slender pillar, and upon it is the goddess of Justice, blindfolded, with her scales in her hand.
Who acts: pillar · What happens: stand, be, blindfold · To what, where: slender pillar, Piazza dell Trinita, goddess
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 (pillar), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 5 Trinita | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Trinita | det |
| 3 | Piazza | Piazza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Trinita | compound |
| 4 | dell | DELL | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Trinita | compound |
| 5 | Trinita | Trinita | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 stands | obl |
| 6 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 pillar | det |
| 8 | slender | slender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 pillar | amod |
| 9 | pillar | pillar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stands | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 goddess | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 goddess | cc |
| 12 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 16 goddess | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 goddess | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 goddess | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 goddess | det |
| 16 | goddess | goddess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stands | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Justice | case |
| 18 | Justice | Justice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 goddess | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 blindfolded | punct |
| 20 | blindfolded | blindfold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 goddess | acl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 scales | punct |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 scales | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 scales | nmod:poss |
| 24 | scales | scale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 blindfolded | obl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 hand | case |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 hand | nmod:poss |
| 27 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 scales | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stands | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | present | a slender pillar | the Piazza dell Trinita | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pillar=Theme on trinita=Destination | ||||
| 2 | is | present | pillar | upon the goddess; of Justice | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | blindfold | participle | the goddess not said here | with Justice's scales in Justice's hand | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with scale=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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