Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 35
The older people stand as if uncertain, yet hopeful, and they bow in humble adoration to the Lord Jesus.
Who acts: older people, people · What happens: stand, bow · To what, where: humble adoration
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 (older people, people), 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 | 3 people | det |
| 2 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 people | amod |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stand | nsubj |
| 4 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 uncertain | mark |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 uncertain | mark |
| 7 | uncertain | uncertain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stand | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hopeful | punct |
| 9 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 10 hopeful | cc |
| 10 | hopeful | hopeful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 uncertain | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bow | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 bow | cc |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 bow | nsubj |
| 14 | bow | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 stand | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 adoration | case |
| 16 | humble | humble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 adoration | amod |
| 17 | adoration | adoration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bow | obl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 Jesus | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Jesus | det |
| 20 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Jesus | compound |
| 21 | Jesus | Jesus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 adoration | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | present | the older people | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | bow | present | people | humble adoration to the Lord Jesus | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in adoration=Location |
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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