Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 45
So then they went on at a rapid pace through the streets of Florence, till they came to the square before the church of Santa Croce.
Who acts: eyes · What happens: go on, come · To what, where: streets, square
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 (eyes), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 went | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 went | compound:prt |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 pace | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 pace | det |
| 8 | rapid | rapid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 pace | amod |
| 9 | pace | pace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 10 | through | through | ADP | _ | 12 streets | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 streets | det |
| 12 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 went | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Florence | case |
| 14 | Florence | Florence | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 streets | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 came | punct |
| 16 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 18 came | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 came | nsubj |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 square | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 square | det |
| 21 | square | square | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | obl |
| 22 | before | before | ADP | _ | 24 church | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 church | det |
| 24 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Santa | case |
| 26 | Santa | Santa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 church | nmod |
| 27 | Croce | Croce | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Santa | flat |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past | eyes = eye | the streets of Florence | then | at a rapid pace | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at pace=Location | ||
| 2 | come | past | eyes = eye | the square | before the church of Santa | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to square=Initial_Location |
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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