Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 37
Where honesty leads the way, prosperity is sure to follow.
Who acts: honesty, prosperity · What happens: lead, be, follow · To what, where: way
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Everything in the Right Place. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (honesty, prosperity), 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 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 3 leads | advmod |
| 2 | honesty | honesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 leads | nsubj |
| 3 | leads | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 sure | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 way | det |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 leads | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sure | punct |
| 7 | prosperity | prosperity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sure | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 sure | cop |
| 9 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 follow | mark |
| 11 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 sure | xcomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | present | honesty | the way | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | prosperity | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | follow | to-infinitive | prosperity not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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