Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor, sentence 11
There he stands before them, towering high above them all.
Who acts: genius · What happens: stand, tower
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), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 stands | expl |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stands | nsubj |
| 3 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | before | before | ADP | _ | 5 them | case |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stands | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 towering | punct |
| 7 | towering | tower | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 stands | advcl |
| 8 | high | high | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 towering | advmod |
| 9 | above | above | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 towering | obl |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stands | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | present | genius | there | before Athenians = athenian | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before they=Location | |||
| 2 | tower | gerund | genius not said here | above Athenians = athenian; high property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above they=Location |
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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