Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 50
In the right aisle of the church every statue on the richly carved sarcophagi seemed endowed with life.
What happens: carve, endow · To what, where: statue, right aisle
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 | _ | 4 aisle | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 aisle | det |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 aisle | amod |
| 4 | aisle | aisle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 endowed | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 church | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 church | det |
| 7 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 aisle | nmod |
| 8 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 statue | det |
| 9 | statue | statue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 endowed | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 sarcophagi | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sarcophagi | det |
| 12 | richly | richly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sarcophagi | amod |
| 13 | carved | carve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 sarcophagi | amod |
| 14 | sarcophagi | sarcophagus | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 statue | nmod |
| 15 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 endowed | aux:pass |
| 16 | endowed | endow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 life | case |
| 18 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 endowed | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 endowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carve | participle | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | endow | past · passive | every statue on the richly carved sarcophagi | the right aisle of the church | with life | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with life=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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