Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor, sentence 13

Seven cities contended for the honor of giving birth to Homer--that is to say, they contended after his death!

Who acts: honor, that, cities, Homer · What happens: contend, give, be, die · To what, where: Seven cities, birth, Homer · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (honor, that, cities, Homer), 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	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 cities	nummod
2	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	contended	contend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 cities	acl
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 honor	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 honor	det
6	honor	honor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 contended	obl
7	of	of	SCONJ	_	8 giving	mark
8	giving	give	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 honor	acl
9	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 giving	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 Homer	case
11	Homer	Homer	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 giving	obl
12	--	--	PUNCT	_	16 say	punct
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 say	nsubj:outer
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 say	cop
15	to	to	PART	_	16 say	mark
16	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 cities	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 contended	punct
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 contended	nsubj
19	contended	contend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 say	ccomp
20	after	after	ADP	_	22 death	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 death	nmod:poss
22	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 contended	obl
23	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 cities	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	contend	participle		Seven cities not said here			for the honor	vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	give	gerund	the honor not said here	birth	Homer			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent birth=Theme to homer=Recipient
3	be speech: assert	present	that				say property	tree rules
4	contend	past	cities = city			after Homer's death		vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	die		Homer					nom death «event intransitive»: poss=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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