Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), sentence 49

He had dared to attempt to reach foreign territories unnoticed, and must therefore give up fatherland, mother, his dearest friends, all, or sink down into the stream of common life.

Who acts: pupil · What happens: dare, attempt, reach, give up, sink down · To what, where: foreign territories, fatherland, stream

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 (pupil), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 dared	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dared	aux
3	dared	dare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 attempt	mark
5	attempt	attempt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 dared	xcomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 reach	mark
7	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 attempt	xcomp
8	foreign	foreign	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 territories	amod
9	territories	territory	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 reach	obj
10	unnoticed	unnoticed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 reach	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 give	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 give	cc
13	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 give	aux
14	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	15 give	advmod
15	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 dared	parataxis
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 give	compound:prt
17	fatherland	fatherland	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 give	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 mother	punct
19	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fatherland	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 friends	punct
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 friends	nmod:poss
22	dearest	dear	ADJ	Degree=Sup	23 friends	amod
23	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 fatherland	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 all	punct
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 fatherland	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 sink	punct
27	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 sink	cc
28	sink	sink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 give	conj
29	down	down	ADV	_	28 sink	advmod
30	into	into	ADP	_	32 stream	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 stream	det
32	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sink	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 life	case
34	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 life	amod
35	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 stream	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 dared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	dare	past · perfect	pupil				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	attempt	to-infinitive	pupil not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	reach not said to happen	to-infinitive	pupil not said here	foreign territories		unnoticed property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent territory=Theme
4	give up	must		fatherland and mother and pupil's dearest friends		therefore property	vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fatherland=Source
5	sink down	infinitive			the stream of common life	down property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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