Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Puppet-show Man, sentence 24

It is the same with people in the world; they are rubbed about on this spherical globe till the electric spark comes upon them, and then we have a Napoleon, or a Luther, or some one of the kind.

Who acts: iron, electric spark, we · What happens: be, rub, come, have · To what, where: sparks, spherical globe, Napoleon

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Puppet-show Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (iron, electric spark, we), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 same	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 same	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 same	det
4	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 people	case
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 same	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 world	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 world	det
9	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 people	nmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 rubbed	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 rubbed	nsubj:pass
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 rubbed	aux:pass
13	rubbed	rub	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 same	parataxis
14	about	about	ADV	_	13 rubbed	advmod
15	on	on	ADP	_	18 globe	case
16	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 globe	det
17	spherical	spherical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 globe	amod
18	globe	globe	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rubbed	obl
19	till	till	SCONJ	_	23 comes	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 spark	det
21	electric	electric	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 spark	amod
22	spark	spark	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 comes	nsubj
23	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 rubbed	advcl
24	upon	upon	ADP	_	25 them	case
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 comes	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 have	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 have	cc
28	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 have	advmod
29	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 have	nsubj
30	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 same	parataxis
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 Napoleon	det
32	Napoleon	Napoleon	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 have	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 one	punct
34	or	or	CCONJ	_	40 one	cc
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 Luther	det
36	Luther	Luther	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 one	nsubj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 one	punct
38	or	or	CCONJ	_	40 one	cc
39	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	40 one	det
40	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 Napoleon	appos
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 kind	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 kind	det
43	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 one	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 same	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	iron				with people in the world; same property	tree rules
2	rub	present · passive		sparks = spark	this spherical globe		about property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on globe=Destination
3	come	present	the electric spark				upon people	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon they=Location
4	have	present	we	a Napoleon		then		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent napoleon=Patient

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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