Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 32
They are not the lost whom the spectator sees, but the heathen of olden times.
Who acts: spectator · What happens: not lose, see · To what, where: Hades
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 (spectator), 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 | 5 lost | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 lost | aux:pass |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 lost | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 lost | det |
| 5 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 sees | obj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 spectator | det |
| 8 | spectator | spectator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sees | nsubj |
| 9 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 lost | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 heathen | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 heathen | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 heathen | det |
| 13 | heathen | heathen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lost | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 times | case |
| 15 | olden | olden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 times | amod |
| 16 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 heathen | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not lose | present · passive | Hades = hade | the heathen of olden times obl | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | see | present | the spectator | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=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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