Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 33
The Florentine, Angiolo Bronzino, painted this picture; most beautiful is the expression on the face of the two children, who appear to have full confidence that they shall reach heaven at last.
Who acts: Florentine, most, two children · What happens: paint, be, appear, have, reach · To what, where: picture, expression, face, full confidence, heaven, last
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 (Florentine, most, two children), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Florentine | det |
| 2 | Florentine | Florentine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 painted | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Angiolo | punct |
| 4 | Angiolo | Angiolo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Florentine | conj |
| 5 | Bronzino | Bronzino | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Angiolo | flat |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Florentine | punct |
| 7 | painted | paint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 picture | det |
| 9 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 painted | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 expression | punct |
| 11 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 expression | nsubj |
| 12 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 most | xcomp |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 expression | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 expression | det |
| 15 | expression | expression | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 painted | obl |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 face | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 face | det |
| 18 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 expression | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 children | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 children | det |
| 21 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 children | nummod |
| 22 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 face | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 appear | punct |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 appear | nsubj |
| 25 | appear | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 children | acl:relcl |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 have | mark |
| 27 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 appear | xcomp |
| 28 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 confidence | amod |
| 29 | confidence | confidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 have | obj |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 reach | mark |
| 31 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 reach | nsubj |
| 32 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 reach | aux |
| 33 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 have | advcl |
| 34 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 reach | obj |
| 35 | at | at | ADP | _ | 36 last | case |
| 36 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 reach | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 painted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | paint | past | the Florentine and Angiolo | this picture | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent picture=Destination | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | most | the expression | the face of the two children | tree rules | |||
| 3 | appear | present | the two children | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | have | to-infinitive | the two children not said here | full confidence | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent confidence=Patient | ||||
| 5 | reach | shall | Florentine | heaven | last | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent heaven=Theme at last=Asset |
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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