Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor, sentence 24

He is the submissive slave of Camoens, and but for him, and for the copper coins thrown to him by the passers-by, his master, the poet of the "Lusiad," would die of hunger.

Who acts: hair · What happens: be, throw, die · To what, where: submissive slave, copper coins, hair

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 (hair), 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	5 slave	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 slave	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 slave	det
4	submissive	submissive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 slave	amod
5	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Camoens	case
7	Camoens	Camoens	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 slave	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 him	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 him	cc
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 him	cc
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 slave	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 die	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 die	cc
15	for	for	ADP	_	18 coins	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 coins	det
17	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 coins	compound
18	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 die	obl
19	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 coins	acl
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 thrown	obl
22	by	by	ADP	_	24 passers	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 passers	det
24	passers	passer	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 thrown	obl
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 passers	punct
26	by	by	ADP	_	19 thrown	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 master	punct
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 master	nmod:poss
29	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 coins	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 poet	punct
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 poet	det
32	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 master	appos
33	of	of	ADP	_	36 Lusiad	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 Lusiad	det
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	36 Lusiad	punct
36	Lusiad	Lusiad	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 poet	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 coins	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	40 die	punct
39	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 die	aux
40	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 him	conj
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 hunger	case
42	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 die	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 slave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	hair	the submissive slave		of Camoens	tree rules
2	throw	participle		the copper coins and hair's master not said here	hair	by the passers	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent to he=Destination
3	die	would	hair not said here			for the copper coins and hair's master; of hunger	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of hunger=Causer

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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