Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 18
By the Palazzo degli Uffizi, in the arcade, where the nobility assemble for the carnival, the Metal Pig stopped. "
Who acts: nobility, Metal Pig · What happens: assemble, stop
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 (nobility, Metal Pig), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 4 degli | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 degli | det |
| 3 | Palazzo | Palazzo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 degli | compound |
| 4 | degli | degli | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | Uffizi | Uffizi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 degli | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 arcade | punct |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 arcade | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 arcade | det |
| 9 | arcade | arcade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 degli | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 assemble | punct |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 assemble | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 nobility | det |
| 13 | nobility | nobility | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 assemble | nsubj |
| 14 | assemble | assemble | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 arcade | conj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 carnival | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 carnival | det |
| 17 | carnival | carnival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 assemble | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 stopped | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Pig | det |
| 20 | Metal | metal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Pig | amod |
| 21 | Pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stopped | nsubj |
| 22 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 assemble | parataxis |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 arcade | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 arcade | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assemble | infinitive | the nobility | for the carnival | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stop | past | the Metal Pig | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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