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title: Up on the roof stood a metal chariot drawn by metal horses, and the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Up on the roof stood a metal chariot drawn by metal horses, and the goddess of Victory, also of metal, was driving. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 176

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Up on the roof stood a metal chariot drawn by metal horses, and the goddess of Victory, also of metal, was driving.

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**What happens:** stand, draw, drive · **To what, where:** metal chariot, roof

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families. 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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:124:176
# text = Up on the roof stood a metal chariot drawn by metal horses, and the goddess of Victory, also of metal, was driving.
1	Up	up	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
5	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	chariot	chariot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	goddess	goddess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Victory	Victory	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	also	also	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	driving	drive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past |  | a metal chariot |  | the roof |  | the goddess of Victory *obl* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent chariot=Theme on roof=Destination |
| 2 | **draw** | participle |  | a metal chariot *not said here* |  |  |  | by metal horses | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **drive** | past · progressive |  |  |  |  |  | of metal | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent of metal=Trajectory |

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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.

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**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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