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title: On this picture the boy's eyes rested longer than on any other: the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: On this picture the boy's eyes rested longer than on any other: the Metal Pig stood still before it. Who acts: eyes, Metal Pig. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Metal Pig, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 36

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On this picture the boy's eyes rested longer than on any other: the Metal Pig stood still before it.

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**Who acts:** eyes, Metal Pig · **What happens:** rest, stand · **To what, where:** picture

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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 (eyes, Metal Pig), 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:pg27200:89:36
# text = On this picture the boy's eyes rested longer than on any other: the Metal Pig stood still before it.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	rested	rest	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
10	than	than	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
13	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Metal	Metal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
19	still	still	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	before	before	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rest** | past | the boy's eyes |  |  | this picture |  | long *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on picture=Location |
| 2 | **stand** | past | the Metal Pig |  |  | picture | still |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before it=Location |

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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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