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title: They stopped before the picture by Bronzino, in which Christ is repr… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: They stopped before the picture by Bronzino, in which Christ is represented as standing in the lower world, with the children smiling before Him, in the sweet expectation of entering heaven; and the poor boy smiled, too, for here was his heaven. Who acts: box, children, sweet expectation, poor boy. 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 112

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They stopped before the picture by Bronzino, in which Christ is represented as standing in the lower world, with the children smiling before Him, in the sweet expectation of entering heaven; and the poor boy smiled, too, for here was his heaven.

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**Who acts:** box, children, sweet expectation, poor boy · **What happens:** stop, represent, smile, enter, be · **To what, where:** Christ, lower world, heaven

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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 (box, children, sweet expectation, poor boy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:89:112
# text = They stopped before the picture by Bronzino, in which Christ is represented as standing in the lower world, with the children smiling before Him, in the sweet expectation of entering heaven; and the poor boy smiled, too, for here was his heaven.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	before	before	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Bronzino	Bronzino	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	obl	_	_
11	Christ	Christ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	represented	represent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	standing	standing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	lower	low	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	19	amod	_	_
19	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
24	smiling	smile	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	acl	_	_
25	before	before	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Him	Him	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	expectation	expectation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
32	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
33	entering	enter	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	acl	_	_
34	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	40	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
40	smiled	smile	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
42	too	too	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
44	for	for	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	48	obl	_	_
46	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	cop	_	_
47	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | past | box |  |  |  | before the picture | by Bronzino | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **represent** | present · passive |  | Christ |  | the lower world |  | as standing; with the children; in the sweet expectation | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Theme as standing=Attribute |
| 3 | **smile** | gerund | the children *not said here* |  |  |  | before Him |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **enter** | gerund | the sweet expectation *not said here* | heaven |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme heaven=Destination |
| 5 | **smile** | past | the poor boy |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is a** | past |  | boy's heaven |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**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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