Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 112
They stopped before the picture by Bronzino, in which Christ is represented as standing in the lower world, with the children smiling before Him, in the sweet expectation of entering heaven; and the poor boy smiled, too, for here was his heaven.
Who acts: box, children, sweet expectation, poor boy · What happens: stop, represent, smile, enter, be · To what, where: Christ, lower world, heaven
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 (box, children, sweet expectation, poor boy), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 stopped | nsubj |
| 2 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | before | before | ADP | _ | 5 picture | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 picture | det |
| 5 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stopped | obl |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 Bronzino | case |
| 7 | Bronzino | Bronzino | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 stopped | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 represented | punct |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 which | case |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 represented | obl |
| 11 | Christ | Christ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 represented | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 represented | aux:pass |
| 13 | represented | represent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 stopped | conj |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 standing | case |
| 15 | standing | standing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 represented | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 world | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 world | det |
| 18 | lower | low | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 world | amod |
| 19 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 represented | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 children | punct |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 children | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 children | det |
| 23 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 represented | obl |
| 24 | smiling | smile | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 children | acl |
| 25 | before | before | ADP | _ | 26 Him | case |
| 26 | Him | Him | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 smiling | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 expectation | punct |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 expectation | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 expectation | det |
| 30 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 expectation | amod |
| 31 | expectation | expectation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 represented | obl |
| 32 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 33 entering | mark |
| 33 | entering | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 expectation | acl |
| 34 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 entering | obj |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 40 smiled | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 smiled | cc |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 boy | det |
| 38 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 boy | amod |
| 39 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 smiled | nsubj |
| 40 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stopped | parataxis |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 too | punct |
| 42 | too | too | ADV | _ | 40 smiled | advmod |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 heaven | punct |
| 44 | for | for | ADP | _ | 45 here | case |
| 45 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 48 heaven | obl |
| 46 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 heaven | cop |
| 47 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 heaven | nmod:poss |
| 48 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 smiled | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past | box | before the picture | by Bronzino | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | represent | present · passive | Christ | the lower world | as standing; with the children; in the sweet expectation | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme as standing=Attribute | |||
| 3 | smile | gerund | the children not said here | before Him | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | enter | gerund | the sweet expectation not said here | heaven | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme heaven=Destination | ||||
| 5 | smile | past | the poor boy | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is a | past | boy's heaven | tree rules |
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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