Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 184
Two pictures, placed side by side, attracted a large number of spectators.
Who acts: Two pictures · What happens: place, attract · To what, where: large number
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 (Two pictures), 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 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 pictures | nummod |
| 2 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 attracted | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 side | punct |
| 4 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 side | amod |
| 5 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pictures | nmod |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 side | case |
| 7 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 side | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 pictures | punct |
| 9 | attracted | attract | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 number | det |
| 11 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 number | amod |
| 12 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 attracted | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 spectators | case |
| 14 | spectators | spectator | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 number | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 attracted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | participle | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | attract | past | Two pictures placed side by side | a large number of spectators | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Patient |
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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