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title: One glory eclipsed another; yet there was one picture that fixed its… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: One glory eclipsed another; yet there was one picture that fixed itself on the little boy's memory, more especially because of the happy children it represented, for these the little boy had seen in daylight. Who acts: One glory, one picture, glory. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Ander
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 30

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One glory eclipsed another; yet there was one picture that fixed itself on the little boy's memory, more especially because of the happy children it represented, for these the little boy had seen in daylight.

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**Who acts:** One glory, one picture, glory · **What happens:** eclipse, be, fix, represent, see · **To what, where:** another, one picture, glory, memory, happy children, little boy

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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 (One glory, one picture, glory), 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:pg27200:89:30
# text = One glory eclipsed another; yet there was one picture that fixed itself on the little boy's memory, more especially because of the happy children it represented, for these the little boy had seen in daylight.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	glory	glory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	eclipsed	eclipse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	8	expl	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	fixed	fix	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	12	obj	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
21	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	22	advmod	_	_
22	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
23	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	27	case	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	fixed	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	represented	represent	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
31	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
32	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	35	det	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj:pass	_	_
36	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	ccomp	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	daylight	daylight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eclipse** | participle | One glory *not said here* | another |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | One glory | one picture and the happy children |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **fix** | past | one picture and the happy children | glory |  | the little boy's memory |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent itself=Patient |
| 4 | **represent** | past | glory | the happy children *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent child=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 5 | **see** | past · perfect · passive |  | this little boy |  | daylight |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |

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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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