Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor, sentence 38
One picture after another comes crowding on; the thorny path of honor and of fame is over-filled.
Who acts: One picture · What happens: come, crowd on, be · To what, where: thorny path
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 (One picture), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 picture | nummod |
| 2 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 comes | nsubj |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 another | case |
| 4 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 picture | nmod |
| 5 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | crowding | crowd | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 comes | xcomp |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 crowding | compound:prt |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 path | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 path | det |
| 10 | thorny | thorny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 path | amod |
| 11 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 comes | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 honor | case |
| 13 | honor | honor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 path | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 over-filled | cc |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 fame | case |
| 16 | fame | fame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 over-filled | obl |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 over-filled | cop |
| 18 | over-filled | over-filled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 honor | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | One picture after another | the thorny path of honor | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | crowd on | gerund | One picture after another not said here | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | present | One picture after another not said here | of fame; over-filled property | tree rules |
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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