Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor, sentence 3

The story is very closely akin to reality; but still it has its harmonious explanation here on earth, while reality often points beyond the confines of life to the regions of eternity.

Who acts: story, reality · What happens: be, have, point, explain · To what, where: harmonious explanation, regions

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 (story, reality), 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	2 story	det
2	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 akin	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 akin	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 closely	advmod
5	closely	closely	ADV	_	6 akin	advmod
6	akin	akin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 reality	case
8	reality	reality	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 akin	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 has	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 has	cc
11	still	still	ADV	_	13 has	advmod
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 has	nsubj
13	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 akin	parataxis
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 explanation	nmod:poss
15	harmonious	harmonious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 explanation	amod
16	explanation	explanation	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 has	obj
17	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 has	advmod
18	on	on	ADP	_	19 earth	case
19	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 here	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 points	punct
21	while	while	SCONJ	_	24 points	mark
22	reality	reality	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 points	nsubj
23	often	often	ADV	_	24 points	advmod
24	points	point	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 has	conj
25	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	27 confines	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 confines	det
27	confines	confines	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 points	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 life	case
29	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 confines	nmod
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 regions	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 regions	det
32	regions	region	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 points	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 eternity	case
34	eternity	eternity	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 regions	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 akin	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the story					to reality; akin, closely property	tree rules
2	have	present	reality	reality's harmonious explanation		here	still		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent explanation=Patient
3	point	present	reality		the regions of eternity			beyond the confines of life; often property	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to region=Recipient
4	explain		reality						nom explanation «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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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