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description: Many pass this picture by with indifference, and yet it contains a treasure of poetic feeling; it represents Christ descending into Hades. Who acts: Many, picture. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Metal Pig, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 31

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Many pass this picture by with indifference, and yet it contains a treasure of poetic feeling; it represents Christ descending into Hades.

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**Who acts:** Many, picture · **What happens:** pass, contain, represent, descend, treasure · **To what, where:** picture, treasure, Christ, Hades, poetic feeling

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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 (Many, picture), 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:pg27200:89:31
# text = Many pass this picture by with indifference, and yet it contains a treasure of poetic feeling; it represents Christ descending into Hades.
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	nsubj	_	_
2	pass	pass	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	indifference	indifference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	contains	contain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	poetic	poetic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	feeling	feeling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	represents	represent	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
21	Christ	Christ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	descending	descend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
23	into	into	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Hades	Hade	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | present | Many | this picture |  |  |  | by indifference | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent picture=Theme by indifference=Destination |
| 2 | **contain** | present | picture | a treasure of poetic feeling |  |  | yet |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot treasure=Theme |
| 3 | **represent** | present | picture | Christ |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot christ=Theme |
| 4 | **descend** | gerund | picture *not said here* |  |  | Hades |  |  | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into hade=Location |
| 5 | **treasure** |  |  | poetic feeling |  |  |  |  | nom treasure «possession transitive»: of=patient |

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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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