Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor, sentence 42
She carries the banner in front of the combating army, and brings victory and salvation to her fatherland.
Who acts: woman · What happens: carry, combat, bring · To what, where: banner, front, victory, fatherland
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 (woman), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 carries | nsubj |
| 2 | carries | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 banner | det |
| 4 | banner | banner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 carries | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 front | case |
| 6 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 carries | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 army | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 army | det |
| 9 | combating | combat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 army | amod |
| 10 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 front | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 brings | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 brings | cc |
| 13 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 carries | conj |
| 14 | victory | victory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 brings | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 salvation | cc |
| 16 | salvation | salvation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 victory | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 fatherland | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 fatherland | nmod:poss |
| 19 | fatherland | fatherland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 brings | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 carries | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | present | woman | the banner | front of the combating army | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent banner=Value in front=Location | |||
| 2 | combat | gerund | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | bring | present | woman not said here | victory and salvation | woman's fatherland | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent victory=Theme to fatherland=Destination |
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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