Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor, sentence 22
The dead man is he whom they have been sent to seek--Firdusi--who has wandered the Thorny road of honor even to the end.
Who acts: dead man, Firdusi · What happens: be, send, seek, wander · To what, where: envy, Firdusi, Thorny road
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 (dead man, Firdusi), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 whom | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 whom | cop |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 whom | nsubj |
| 6 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | root | root |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 sent | aux |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 sent | aux:pass |
| 10 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 whom | acl:relcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 seek | mark |
| 12 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 sent | advcl |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 Firdusi | punct |
| 14 | Firdusi | Firdusi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 seek | obj |
| 15 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 18 wandered | punct |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 wandered | nsubj |
| 17 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 wandered | aux |
| 18 | wandered | wander | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 Firdusi | acl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 road | det |
| 20 | Thorny | thorny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 road | amod |
| 21 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 wandered | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 honor | case |
| 23 | honor | honor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 road | nmod |
| 24 | even | even | ADV | _ | 27 end | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 end | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 end | det |
| 27 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 wandered | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 whom | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the dead man | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | send | present · perfect · passive | envy | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | seek | to-infinitive | Firdusi | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent firdusi=Theme | |||||
| 4 | wander | present · perfect | Firdusi | the Thorny road of honor | to the end | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme road=Trajectory |
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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