Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 2
In this street, just in front of the market-place where vegetables are sold, stands a pig, made of brass and curiously formed.
What happens: sell, stand, make, form · To what, where: vegetables, pig, street
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: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 street | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 street | det |
| 3 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stands | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 front | punct |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 front | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 front | case |
| 7 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 street | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 place | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 place | det |
| 10 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 place | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 market | punct |
| 12 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 front | nmod |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 sold | advmod |
| 14 | vegetables | vegetable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 sold | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 sold | aux:pass |
| 16 | sold | sell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 place | acl:relcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 street | punct |
| 18 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 pig | det |
| 20 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stands | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 made | punct |
| 22 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 stands | parataxis |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 brass | case |
| 24 | brass | brass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 made | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 formed | cc |
| 26 | curiously | curiously | ADV | _ | 27 formed | advmod |
| 27 | formed | form | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 made | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 stands | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sell | present · passive | vegetables | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | stand | present | a pig | this street in front of the market place | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pig=Theme in street=Destination | ||||
| 3 | make | participle | of brass | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 4 | form | participle | curiously property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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