Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor, sentence 16
He, the great seer, is blind, and painfully pursues his way--the sharp thorn tears the mantle of the king of poets.
Who acts: Honor, great seer, sharp thorn · What happens: seer, be, pursue, tear · To what, where: way, mantle
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, great seer, sharp thorn), 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 | 5 seer | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 seer | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 seer | det |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 seer | amod |
| 5 | seer | seer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 blind | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 seer | punct |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 blind | cop |
| 8 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 pursues | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 pursues | cc |
| 11 | painfully | painfully | ADV | _ | 12 pursues | advmod |
| 12 | pursues | pursue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 blind | parataxis |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 way | nmod:poss |
| 14 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pursues | obj |
| 15 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 19 tears | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 thorn | det |
| 17 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 thorn | amod |
| 18 | thorn | thorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tears | nsubj |
| 19 | tears | tear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 pursues | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 mantle | det |
| 21 | mantle | mantle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tears | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 king | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 king | det |
| 24 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 mantle | nmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 poets | case |
| 26 | poets | poet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 king | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 blind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seer | Honor | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | is | present | the great seer | blind property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | pursue | present | Honor's way | painfully property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme | ||||
| 4 | tear | present | the sharp thorn | the mantle of the king of poets | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location mantle=Theme |
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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