Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), sentence 35

We find him taking high honors at the military school in the division commanded by the member of a family high in position, and this was an honor, that is to say, good luck.

Who acts: We, career, this, that · What happens: find, take, command, be · To what, where: career, high honors, military school, division, honor · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, career, this, that), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 find	nsubj
2	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 find	obj
4	taking	take	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 find	xcomp
5	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 honors	amod
6	honors	honor	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 taking	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	10 school	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 school	det
9	military	military	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 school	amod
10	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 taking	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 division	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 division	det
13	division	division	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 taking	obl
14	commanded	command	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 division	acl
15	by	by	ADP	_	17 member	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 member	det
17	member	member	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 commanded	obl:agent
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 family	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 family	det
20	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 member	nmod
21	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 family	amod
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 position	case
23	position	position	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 high	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 honor	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 honor	cc
26	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 honor	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 honor	cop
28	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 honor	det
29	honor	honor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 find	parataxis
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 say	punct
31	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 say	nsubj:outer
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 say	cop
33	to	to	PART	_	34 say	mark
34	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 honor	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 luck	punct
36	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 luck	amod
37	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 honor	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 find	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	present	We	career			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute clause=Theme
2	take	gerund	career not said here	high honors	the military school	in the division	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent honor=Value in division=Location
3	command	participle		the division not said here			vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past	this	a honor and good luck			tree rules
5	is	present	that			say property	tree rules

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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