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title: First, they arrived at the Piazza del Granduca, and the metal horse… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: First, they arrived at the Piazza del Granduca, and the metal horse which bears the duke's statue, neighed aloud. Who acts: mountains. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Metal Pig, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 15

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First, they arrived at the Piazza del Granduca, and the metal horse which bears the duke's statue, neighed aloud.

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**Who acts:** mountains · **What happens:** arrive, neigh · **To what, where:** Piazza del, metal horse

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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 (mountains), 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:pg27200:89:15
# text = First, they arrived at the Piazza del Granduca, and the metal horse which bears the duke's statue, neighed aloud.
1	First	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Piazza	Piazza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	del	Del	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	Granduca	Granduca	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	16	det	_	_
16	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	duke	duke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	statue	statue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	neighed	neigh	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
23	aloud	aloud	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | past | mountains *= mountain* |  |  | the Piazza del |  | first *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **neigh** | participle · passive |  | the metal horse  which bears  the duke's statue |  |  |  | aloud *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |

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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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