Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 27
By her side were statues, in which the spirit of life breathed in stone; figures of men, one of whom whetted his sword, and was named the Grinder; wrestling gladiators formed another group, the sword had been sharpened for them, and they strove for the goddess of beauty.
Who acts: wrestling gladiators, gladiators · What happens: be, breathe, whet, name, wrestle, form · To what, where: statues, life, stone, sword, Grinder, group
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 (wrestling gladiators, gladiators), 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 | _ | 3 side | case |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 side | nmod:poss |
| 3 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 statues | obl |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 statues | cop |
| 5 | statues | statue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 formed | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 spirit | punct |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 which | case |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 spirit | obl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 spirit | det |
| 10 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 statues | appos |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 life | case |
| 12 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 spirit | nmod |
| 13 | breathed | breathe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 life | acl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 stone | case |
| 15 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 breathed | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 figures | punct |
| 17 | figures | figure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 statues | appos |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 men | case |
| 19 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 figures | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 one | punct |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 figures | conj |
| 22 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 24 whetted | mark |
| 23 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 whetted | nsubj |
| 24 | whetted | whet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 one | acl:relcl |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 sword | nmod:poss |
| 26 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 whetted | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 named | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 named | cc |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 named | aux:pass |
| 30 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 whetted | conj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Grinder | det |
| 32 | Grinder | grinder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 named | obj |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 formed | punct |
| 34 | wrestling | wrestle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 35 gladiators | amod |
| 35 | gladiators | gladiator | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 formed | nsubj |
| 36 | formed | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 37 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 38 group | det |
| 38 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 formed | obj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 sharpened | punct |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 sword | det |
| 41 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 sharpened | nsubj:pass |
| 42 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 sharpened | aux |
| 43 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 44 sharpened | aux:pass |
| 44 | sharpened | sharpen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 formed | conj |
| 45 | for | for | ADP | _ | 46 them | case |
| 46 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 sharpened | obl |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 strove | punct |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 strove | cc |
| 49 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 strove | nsubj |
| 50 | strove | strive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 formed | conj |
| 51 | for | for | ADP | _ | 53 goddess | case |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 goddess | det |
| 53 | goddess | goddess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 strove | obl |
| 54 | of | of | ADP | _ | 55 beauty | case |
| 55 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 goddess | nmod |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 36 formed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | statues | by immortality's side | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | breathe | participle | life not said here | stone | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | whet | past | world's sword | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | name | past · passive | the Grinder | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: grinder=Theme | |||||
| 5 | wrestle | gerund | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | form | past | wrestling gladiators | another group | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location group=Theme | ||||
| 7 | sharpen | past · perfect · passive | the sword | for gladiators = gladiator | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 8 | strive | past | gladiators = gladiator | for the goddess of beauty | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | figure | men | 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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