Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 116

His hand moved quickly, and his eye measured the great picture; and though nothing appeared but a faint line, the figure of the Saviour was as clearly visible as in the colored picture.

Who acts: hand, eye, nothing, faint line · What happens: move, measure, appear, be, color, figure · To what, where: great picture, Saviour

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 (hand, eye, nothing, faint line), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 hand	nmod:poss
2	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 moved	nsubj
3	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	3 moved	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 measured	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 measured	cc
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 eye	nmod:poss
8	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 measured	nsubj
9	measured	measure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 moved	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 picture	det
11	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 picture	amod
12	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 measured	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 appeared	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 appeared	cc
15	though	though	SCONJ	_	17 appeared	mark
16	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	17 appeared	nsubj
17	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 moved	parataxis
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 visible	cc
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 line	det
20	faint	faint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 line	amod
21	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 visible	nsubj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 figure	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 figure	det
24	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 line	appos
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 Saviour	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Saviour	det
27	Saviour	Saviour	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 figure	nmod
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 visible	cop
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 visible	mark
30	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	31 visible	advmod
31	visible	visible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 appeared	conj
32	as	as	ADP	_	36 picture	case
33	in	in	ADP	_	36 picture	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 picture	det
35	colored	color	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 picture	amod
36	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 visible	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 moved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	move	past	boy's hand		quickly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	measure	past	boy's eye	the great picture		vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme picture=Value
3	appear	past	nothing			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	a faint line		as the colored picture; clearly, visible property	tree rules
5	color	participle				vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	figure			the Saviour		nom figure «communication transitive»: of=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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