Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), sentence 69

[1] To him was offered the honor of forming from the clay, a model of the figure of him whose name, "John Christopher Frederick," had been written by his father in the Bible.

Who acts: honor, father · What happens: offer, form, write, model, figure · To what, where: foliage, clay, name, figure, model

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 (honor, father), 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	[	[	PUNCT	_	2 1	punct
2	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 offered	discourse
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 1	punct
4	To	to	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 offered	nsubj:pass
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 offered	aux:pass
7	offered	offer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 honor	det
9	honor	honor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 offered	obj
10	of	of	SCONJ	_	11 forming	mark
11	forming	form	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 honor	acl
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 clay	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 clay	det
14	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 forming	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 model	punct
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 model	det
17	model	model	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 offered	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 figure	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 figure	det
20	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 model	nmod
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 figure	nmod
23	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	24 name	nmod:poss
24	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 written	nsubj:pass
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 John	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 John	punct
27	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 name	appos
28	Christopher	Christopher	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 John	flat
29	Frederick	Frederick	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 John	flat
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 John	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 name	punct
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 written	aux
33	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	34 written	aux:pass
34	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 figure	acl:relcl
35	by	by	ADP	_	37 father	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 father	nmod:poss
37	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 written	obl
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 Bible	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 Bible	det
40	Bible	Bible	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 father	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 offered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	offer	past · passive		foliage		a model of the figure of model obl	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal honor=Theme
2	form	gerund	the honor not said here		the clay		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	write	past · perfect · passive	foliage's father in the Bible	name			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
4	model			the figure of model			nom model «cognition transitive»: of=patient
5	figure			model			nom figure «communication transitive»: of=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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