Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 24

Here stood the figure of a beautiful woman, as beautifully sculptured as possible by one of the great masters.

What happens: stand, sculpture, figure · To what, where: figure, beautiful woman

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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 stood	advmod
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 figure	det
4	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stood	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 woman	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 woman	det
7	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 woman	amod
8	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 figure	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sculptured	punct
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 sculptured	mark
11	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	_	12 sculptured	advmod
12	sculptured	sculpture	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 stood	conj
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 possible	mark
14	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 sculptured	xcomp
15	by	by	ADP	_	16 one	case
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 sculptured	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 masters	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 masters	det
19	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 masters	amod
20	masters	master	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 one	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past	the figure of a beautiful woman	here		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer figure=Stimulus
2	sculpture	participle			by one of the great masters; beautifully, possible property	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	figure		a beautiful woman			nom figure «communication transitive»: of=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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