Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 9

He stood a long time musing on the bridge which crosses the Arno, and looking at the glittering stars, reflected in the water which flowed between him and the elegant marble bridge Della Trinita.

Who acts: boy, long time, bridge, water · What happens: stand, muse, cross, look, reflect, flow · To what, where: Arno, glittering stars, water

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 (boy, long time, bridge, water), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stood	nsubj
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 time	det
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 time	amod
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stood	obj
6	musing	muse	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 time	acl
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 bridge	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bridge	det
9	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 musing	obl
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 crosses	nsubj
11	crosses	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 bridge	acl:relcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Arno	det
13	Arno	arno	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 crosses	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 looking	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 looking	cc
16	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 stood	advcl
17	at	at	ADP	_	20 stars	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 stars	det
19	glittering	glittering	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 stars	compound
20	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 looking	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 reflected	punct
22	reflected	reflect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 stars	acl
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 water	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 water	det
25	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 reflected	obl
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 flowed	nsubj
27	flowed	flow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 water	acl:relcl
28	between	between	ADP	_	29 him	case
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 flowed	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 bridge	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 bridge	det
32	elegant	elegant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 bridge	amod
33	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 bridge	compound
34	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 stars	conj
35	Della	Della	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 bridge	appos
36	Trinita	Trinita	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 Della	flat
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	boy			time		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	muse	gerund	a long time not said here				on the bridge	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent on bridge=Topic
3	cross	present	the bridge	the Arno				vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arno=Patient
4	look	gerund	boy not said here				at the glittering stars and the elegant marble bridge	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at star=Theme
5	reflect	participle		the glittering stars and the elegant marble bridge not said here	the water			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	flow	past	the water				between boy	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between he=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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