Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor, sentence 20
He whom envy and falsehood have driven into exile has been found, and the caravan approaches the little town in which he has taken refuge.
Who acts: caravan, Honor · What happens: drive, find, approach, take · To what, where: Honor, exile, little town, refuge
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 (caravan, Honor), 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 | 7 driven | nsubj |
| 2 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 driven | obl |
| 3 | envy | envy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 driven | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 falsehood | cc |
| 5 | falsehood | falsehood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 envy | conj |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 driven | aux |
| 7 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | into | into | SCONJ | _ | 12 found | mark |
| 9 | exile | exile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 found | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 found | aux |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 found | aux:pass |
| 12 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 driven | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 approaches | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 approaches | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 caravan | det |
| 16 | caravan | caravan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 approaches | nsubj |
| 17 | approaches | approach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 driven | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 town | det |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 town | amod |
| 20 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 approaches | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 which | case |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 taken | obl |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 taken | nsubj |
| 24 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 taken | aux |
| 25 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 town | acl:relcl |
| 26 | refuge | refuge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 taken | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 driven | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive | present · perfect · passive | Honor | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | find | present · perfect · passive | exile | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 3 | approach | present | the caravan | the little town | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Theme | ||||
| 4 | take | present · perfect | Honor | refuge | the little town | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent refuge=Value in which=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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