Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor, sentence 33

It is Solomon de Cares, the discoverer of the power of steam, whose theory, expressed in dark words, is not understood by Richelieu; and he dies in the madhouse.

Who acts: steam, Richelieu · What happens: be, express, not understand, die · To what, where: Solomon Cares, theory, dark words

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 (steam, Richelieu), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 Cares	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 Cares	cop
3	Solomon	Solomon	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Cares	compound
4	de	de	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Solomon	flat
5	Cares	Care	PROPN	Number=Plur	25 understood	nsubj:pass
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 discoverer	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 discoverer	det
8	discoverer	discoverer	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 understood	nsubj:pass
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 power	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 power	det
11	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 discoverer	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 steam	case
13	steam	steam	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 power	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 theory	punct
15	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	16 theory	nmod:poss
16	theory	theory	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 steam	appos
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 expressed	punct
18	expressed	express	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 theory	acl
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 words	case
20	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 words	amod
21	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 expressed	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 discoverer	punct
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 understood	aux:pass
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 understood	advmod
25	understood	understand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
26	by	by	ADP	_	27 Richelieu	case
27	Richelieu	Richelieu	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 understood	obl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 dies	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 dies	cc
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 dies	nsubj
31	dies	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 understood	parataxis
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 madhouse	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 madhouse	det
34	madhouse	madhouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 dies	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 understood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	steam	Solomon Cares			tree rules
2	express	participle		steam's theory not said here	dark words		vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	not understand	present · passive	Richelieu	Solomon Cares			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus
4	die	present	Richelieu			in the madhouse	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in madhouse=Attribute

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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