Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor, sentence 4
The history of the world is like a magic lantern that displays to us, in light pictures upon the dark ground of the present, how the benefactors of mankind, the martyrs of genius, wandered along the thorny road of honor.
Who acts: history, magic lantern · What happens: be, display, wander · To what, where: us, light pictures, thorny road
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 (history, magic lantern), 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 history | det |
| 2 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lantern | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 world | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 world | det |
| 5 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 history | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 lantern | cop |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 lantern | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 lantern | det |
| 9 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lantern | amod |
| 10 | lantern | lantern | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 displays | nsubj |
| 12 | displays | display | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 lantern | acl:relcl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 us | case |
| 14 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 displays | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 pictures | punct |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 pictures | case |
| 17 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 pictures | compound |
| 18 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 displays | obl |
| 19 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 22 ground | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 ground | det |
| 21 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 ground | amod |
| 22 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 displays | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 present | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 present | det |
| 25 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ground | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 benefactors | punct |
| 27 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 29 benefactors | advmod |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 benefactors | det |
| 29 | benefactors | benefactor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 ground | conj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 mankind | case |
| 31 | mankind | mankind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 benefactors | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 martyrs | punct |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 martyrs | det |
| 34 | martyrs | martyr | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 benefactors | conj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 genius | case |
| 36 | genius | genius | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 martyrs | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 wandered | punct |
| 38 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 lantern | conj |
| 39 | along | along | ADP | _ | 42 road | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 road | det |
| 41 | thorny | thorny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 road | amod |
| 42 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 wandered | obl |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 honor | case |
| 44 | honor | honor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 road | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 lantern | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the history of the world | like a magic lantern | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | display | present | a magic lantern | us | light pictures | upon the dark ground of the present and the benefactors of mankind and the martyrs of genius | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to we=Recipient | ||
| 3 | wander | past | the history of the world not said here | the thorny road of honor | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along road=Trajectory |
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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