Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor, sentence 36
The discoverer of a world--he who lifted the American gold land from the sea, and gave it to his king--he is rewarded with iron chains.
Who acts: discoverer · What happens: lift, give, reward · To what, where: American gold land, sea, land, king, discoverer
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 (discoverer), 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 discoverer | det |
| 2 | discoverer | discoverer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lifted | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 world | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 world | det |
| 5 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 discoverer | nmod |
| 6 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 9 lifted | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 lifted | nsubj |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 lifted | nsubj |
| 9 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 land | det |
| 11 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 land | amod |
| 12 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 land | compound |
| 13 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lifted | obj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 sea | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sea | det |
| 16 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 land | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 gave | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 gave | cc |
| 19 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 lifted | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 gave | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 king | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 king | nmod:poss |
| 23 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gave | obl |
| 24 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 27 rewarded | punct |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 rewarded | nsubj |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 rewarded | aux:pass |
| 27 | rewarded | reward | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 lifted | conj |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 chains | case |
| 29 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 chains | compound |
| 30 | chains | chain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 rewarded | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 lifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift | past | the discoverer of a world | the American gold land | the sea | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent land=Theme from sea=Destination | |||
| 2 | give | past | the discoverer of a world not said here | land | discoverer's king | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to king=Recipient | |||
| 3 | reward | present · passive | discoverer | with iron chains | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: subject=Recipient with chain=Theme |
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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