Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor, sentence 15
He wanders on foot through the cities, and recites his verses for a livelihood; the thought for the morrow turns his hair gray!
Who acts: Honor, thought · What happens: wander, recite, turn, verse · To what, where: foot, verses, hair gray
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, thought), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wanders | nsubj |
| 2 | wanders | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 foot | case |
| 4 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wanders | obl |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 cities | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cities | det |
| 7 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 wanders | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 recites | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 recites | cc |
| 10 | recites | recite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 wanders | conj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 verses | nmod:poss |
| 12 | verses | verse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 recites | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 livelihood | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 livelihood | det |
| 15 | livelihood | livelihood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 recites | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 turns | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 thought | det |
| 18 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 turns | nsubj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 morrow | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 morrow | det |
| 21 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 thought | nmod |
| 22 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 wanders | conj |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 gray | nmod:poss |
| 24 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 gray | compound |
| 25 | gray | gray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 turns | obj |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 wanders | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wander | present | Honor | foot | through the cities | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on foot=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | recite | present | Honor not said here | Honor's verses | for a livelihood | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent verse=Theme for livelihood=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | turn | present | the thought for the morrow | Honor's hair gray | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent gray=Theme | ||||
| 4 | verse | Honor | nom verse «communication transitive»: 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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