Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor, sentence 10
He himself is present; he has risen from the spectator's bench, and has stepped forward, that the laughing Athenians may well appreciate the likeness between himself and the caricature on the stage.
Who acts: genius, laughing Athenians · What happens: be, rise, step forward, laugh, appreciate · To what, where: genius, bench, likeness
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 (genius, laughing Athenians), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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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 | 4 present | nsubj |
| 2 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 1 He | nmod:unmarked |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 present | cop |
| 4 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 risen | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 risen | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 risen | aux |
| 8 | risen | rise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 present | conj |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 bench | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 spectator | det |
| 11 | spectator | spectator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bench | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 spectator | case |
| 13 | bench | bench | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 risen | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 stepped | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 stepped | cc |
| 16 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 stepped | aux |
| 17 | stepped | step | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 risen | advcl |
| 18 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 17 stepped | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 appreciate | punct |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 appreciate | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Athenians | det |
| 22 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 Athenians | amod |
| 23 | Athenians | Athenian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 26 appreciate | nsubj |
| 24 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 appreciate | aux |
| 25 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 appreciate | advmod |
| 26 | appreciate | appreciate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 stepped | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 likeness | det |
| 28 | likeness | likeness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 appreciate | obj |
| 29 | between | between | ADP | _ | 30 himself | case |
| 30 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 26 appreciate | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 caricature | cc |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 caricature | det |
| 33 | caricature | caricature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 himself | conj |
| 34 | on | on | ADP | _ | 36 stage | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 stage | det |
| 36 | stage | stage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 caricature | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 present | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | genius | present property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | rise | present · perfect · passive | genius | the spectator's bench | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: subject=Extent from bench=Initial_State | ||||
| 3 | step forward | present · perfect | forward property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | laugh | gerund | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | appreciate | may | the laughing Athenians | the likeness | between genius; well property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer likeness=Stimulus |
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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