Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 30

One glory eclipsed another; yet there was one picture that fixed itself on the little boy's memory, more especially because of the happy children it represented, for these the little boy had seen in daylight.

Who acts: One glory, one picture, glory · What happens: eclipse, be, fix, represent, see · To what, where: another, one picture, glory, memory, happy children, little boy

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 (One glory, one picture, glory), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 glory	nummod
2	glory	glory	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 picture	nsubj
3	eclipsed	eclipse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 glory	acl
4	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	3 eclipsed	obj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 was	punct
6	yet	yet	ADV	_	8 was	advmod
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 was	expl
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 picture	cop
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 picture	nummod
10	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 fixed	nsubj
12	fixed	fix	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 picture	acl:relcl
13	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 fixed	obj
14	on	on	ADP	_	19 memory	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 boy	det
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 boy	amod
17	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 memory	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 boy	case
19	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fixed	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 children	punct
21	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	22 especially	advmod
22	especially	especially	ADV	_	27 children	advmod
23	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	27 children	case
24	of	of	ADP	_	23 because	fixed
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 children	det
26	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 children	amod
27	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 picture	conj
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 represented	nsubj
29	represented	represent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 children	acl:relcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 seen	punct
31	for	for	SCONJ	_	37 seen	mark
32	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	35 boy	det
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 boy	det
34	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 boy	amod
35	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 seen	nsubj:pass
36	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 seen	aux
37	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 represented	ccomp
38	in	in	ADP	_	39 daylight	case
39	daylight	daylight	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 seen	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 picture	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	eclipse	participle	One glory not said here	another		tree rules
2	is a	past	One glory	one picture and the happy children		tree rules
3	fix	past	one picture and the happy children	glory	the little boy's memory	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent itself=Patient
4	represent	past	glory	the happy children not said here		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent child=Theme clause=Attribute
5	see	past · perfect · passive		this little boy	daylight	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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