Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor, sentence 18
One picture after another springs up from the east, from the west, far removed from each other in time and place, and yet each one forming a portion of the thorny road of honor, on which the thistle indeed displays a flower, but only to adorn the grave.
Who acts: One picture, one, thistle · What happens: spring up, remove, form, display, adorn · To what, where: east, west, each, portion, flower, grave
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 (One picture, one, thistle), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 picture | nummod |
| 2 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 springs | nsubj |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 another | case |
| 4 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 picture | nmod |
| 5 | springs | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 springs | compound:prt |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 east | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 east | det |
| 9 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 springs | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 west | punct |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 west | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 west | det |
| 13 | west | west | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 springs | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 removed | punct |
| 15 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 removed | advmod |
| 16 | removed | remove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 west | acl |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 each | case |
| 18 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 16 removed | obl |
| 19 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 each | fixed |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 time | case |
| 21 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 removed | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 place | cc |
| 23 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 time | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 forming | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 forming | cc |
| 26 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 28 one | advmod |
| 27 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 one | det |
| 28 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 forming | nsubj |
| 29 | forming | form | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 springs | conj |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 portion | det |
| 31 | portion | portion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 forming | obj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 road | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 road | det |
| 34 | thorny | thorny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 road | amod |
| 35 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 portion | nmod |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 honor | case |
| 37 | honor | honor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 road | nmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 displays | punct |
| 39 | on | on | ADP | _ | 40 which | case |
| 40 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 44 displays | obl |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 thistle | det |
| 42 | thistle | thistle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 displays | nsubj |
| 43 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 44 displays | advmod |
| 44 | displays | display | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 forming | parataxis |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 flower | det |
| 46 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 displays | obj |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 adorn | punct |
| 48 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 51 adorn | cc |
| 49 | only | only | ADV | _ | 51 adorn | advmod |
| 50 | to | to | PART | _ | 51 adorn | mark |
| 51 | adorn | adorn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 displays | conj |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 grave | det |
| 53 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 adorn | obj |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 springs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring up | present | One picture after another | the east | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | remove | participle | the west not said here | each | time | far property | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from each=Source | ||
| 3 | form | gerund | each one | a portion of the thorny road of honor | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location portion=Theme | ||||
| 4 | display | present | the thistle | a flower | indeed property | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Theme | |||
| 5 | adorn | to-infinitive | the thistle not said here | the grave | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme grave=Destination |
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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