Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 31
Many pass this picture by with indifference, and yet it contains a treasure of poetic feeling; it represents Christ descending into Hades.
Who acts: Many, picture · What happens: pass, contain, represent, descend, treasure · To what, where: picture, treasure, Christ, Hades, poetic feeling
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 (Many, picture), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 pass | nsubj |
| 2 | pass | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 picture | det |
| 4 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pass | obj |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 indifference | case |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 indifference | case |
| 7 | indifference | indifference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pass | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 contains | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 contains | cc |
| 10 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 12 contains | advmod |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 contains | nsubj |
| 12 | contains | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 pass | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 treasure | det |
| 14 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 contains | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 feeling | case |
| 16 | poetic | poetic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 feeling | amod |
| 17 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 treasure | nmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 represents | punct |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 represents | nsubj |
| 20 | represents | represent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 pass | conj |
| 21 | Christ | Christ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 represents | obj |
| 22 | descending | descend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 represents | advcl |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 Hades | case |
| 24 | Hades | Hade | PROPN | Number=Plur | 22 descending | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 pass | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | present | Many | this picture | by indifference | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent picture=Theme by indifference=Destination | |||
| 2 | contain | present | picture | a treasure of poetic feeling | yet | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot treasure=Theme | |||
| 3 | represent | present | picture | Christ | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot christ=Theme | ||||
| 4 | descend | gerund | picture not said here | Hades | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into hade=Location | ||||
| 5 | treasure | poetic feeling | nom treasure «possession 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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