Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor, sentence 1
An old story yet lives of the "Thorny Road of Honor," of a marksman, who indeed attained to rank and office, but only after a lifelong and weary strife against difficulties.
Who acts: marksman · What happens: attain, rank
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (marksman), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 story | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 story | amod |
| 3 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 5 lives | cc |
| 5 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 story | conj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Road | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Road | det |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Road | punct |
| 9 | Thorny | Thorny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Road | compound |
| 10 | Road | Road | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 story | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Honor | case |
| 12 | Honor | Honor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Road | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 marksman | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 marksman | punct |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 marksman | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 marksman | det |
| 17 | marksman | marksman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Road | appos |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 attained | punct |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 attained | nsubj |
| 20 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 21 attained | advmod |
| 21 | attained | attain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 marksman | acl:relcl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 rank | mark |
| 23 | rank | rank | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 attained | xcomp |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 office | cc |
| 25 | office | office | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 rank | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 strife | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 strife | cc |
| 28 | only | only | ADV | _ | 34 strife | advmod |
| 29 | after | after | ADP | _ | 34 strife | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 strife | det |
| 31 | lifelong | lifelong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 strife | amod |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 weary | cc |
| 33 | weary | weary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 lifelong | conj |
| 34 | strife | strife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 story | conj |
| 35 | against | against | ADP | _ | 36 difficulties | case |
| 36 | difficulties | difficulty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 strife | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 story | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attain | participle | a marksman | indeed property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | rank | to-infinitive | a marksman not said here | vn masquerade-29.6 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent |
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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