Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 49

The monument is unadorned, but the red ladder is an emblem of art, signifying that the way to glory leads up a shining ladder, on which the prophets of mind rise to heaven, like Elias of old.

Who acts: monument, red ladder, way, prophets · What happens: be, signify, glory, lead up, shine, rise · To what, where: emblem, shining ladder

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 (monument, red ladder, way, prophets), 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 monument	det
2	monument	monument	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 unadorned	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 unadorned	cop
4	unadorned	unadorned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 emblem	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 emblem	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ladder	det
8	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 ladder	amod
9	ladder	ladder	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 emblem	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 emblem	cop
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 emblem	det
12	emblem	emblem	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 unadorned	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 art	case
14	art	art	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 emblem	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 signifying	punct
16	signifying	signify	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 unadorned	advcl
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 leads	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 way	det
19	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 leads	nsubj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 glory	mark
21	glory	glory	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 way	acl
22	leads	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 signifying	ccomp
23	up	up	ADP	_	22 leads	compound:prt
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 ladder	det
25	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 ladder	amod
26	ladder	ladder	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 leads	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 rise	punct
28	on	on	ADP	_	29 which	case
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 rise	obl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 prophets	det
31	prophets	prophet	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 rise	nsubj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 mind	case
33	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 prophets	nmod
34	rise	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 unadorned	conj
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 heaven	case
36	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 rise	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 Elias	punct
38	like	like	ADP	_	39 Elias	case
39	Elias	Elias	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 rise	obl
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 old	case
41	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 Elias	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 unadorned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	the monument		unadorned property	tree rules
2	is a	present	the red ladder	a emblem	of art	tree rules
3	signify	gerund	the monument not said here			tree rules
4	glory	to-infinitive	the way not said here			vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	lead up	present	the way	a shining ladder		vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
6	shine	gerund				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	rise	present	the prophets of mind		to heaven; like Elias of old	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on which=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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