Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 29

As they passed from hall to hall, beauty everywhere showed itself; and as the Metal Pig went step by step from one picture to the other, the little boy could see it all plainly.

Who acts: walls, beauty, Metal Pig, little boy · What happens: pass, show, go, see · To what, where: hall, beauty, step, one picture

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 (walls, beauty, Metal Pig, little 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 passed	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 passed	nsubj
3	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 showed	advcl
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 hall	case
5	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 passed	obl
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 hall	case
7	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 passed	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 passed	punct
9	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 showed	nsubj
10	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	11 showed	advmod
11	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 showed	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 went	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 went	cc
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 went	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Pig	det
17	Metal	Metal	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Pig	compound
18	Pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 went	nsubj
19	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 showed	conj
20	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 went	obl
21	by	by	ADP	_	22 step	case
22	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 went	obl
23	from	from	ADP	_	25 picture	case
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 picture	nummod
25	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 went	obl
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 other	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 other	det
28	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 went	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 see	punct
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 boy	det
31	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 boy	amod
32	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 see	nsubj
33	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 see	aux
34	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 showed	conj
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 see	obj
36	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 it	det
37	plainly	plainly	ADV	_	34 see	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 showed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pass	past	walls = wall		hall	to hall	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from hall=Initial_Location to hall=Destination
2	show	past	beauty	beauty		everywhere property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent itself=Recipient
3	go	past	the Metal Pig	step	one picture	by step; to the other	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from picture=Initial_Location to other=Destination
4	see	could	the little boy	beauty		plainly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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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