Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor, sentence 34

Here stands Columbus, whom the street boys used once to follow and jeer, because he wanted to discover a new world; and he has discovered it.

Who acts: street boys, Columbus · What happens: stand, use, follow, jeer, want, discover · To what, where: Columbus, new world, world

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 (street boys, Columbus), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 stands	advmod
2	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Columbus	Columbus	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 stands	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 used	punct
5	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 used	obj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 boys	det
7	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 boys	compound
8	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 used	nsubj
9	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 Columbus	acl:relcl
10	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	9 used	advmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 follow	mark
12	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 used	xcomp
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 jeer	cc
14	jeer	jeer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 follow	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 wanted	punct
16	because	because	SCONJ	_	18 wanted	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 wanted	nsubj
18	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 jeer	ccomp
19	to	to	PART	_	20 discover	mark
20	discover	discover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 wanted	xcomp
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 world	det
22	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 world	amod
23	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 discover	obj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 discovered	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 discovered	cc
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 discovered	nsubj
27	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 discovered	aux
28	discovered	discover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 stands	parataxis
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 discovered	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stands	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	present		Columbus	here		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer columbus=Stimulus
2	use	past	the street boys	Columbus		once property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent whom=Theme clause=Eventuality
3	follow	to-infinitive	the street boys not said here				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	jeer	infinitive	the street boys not said here				tree rules
5	want	past	Columbus				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	discover not said to happen	to-infinitive	Columbus not said here	a new world			vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent world=Topic
7	discover	present · perfect	Columbus	world			vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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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