Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor, sentence 48

They flame up high, illuminating the period and the lawgiver, and throw a glory into the dark prison tower, where an old man is growing gray and bent.

Who acts: old man · What happens: illuminate, throw, grow · To what, where: period, glory, dark prison tower

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 (old man), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 high	nsubj
2	flame	flame	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 high	nsubj
3	up	up	ADV	_	4 high	advmod
4	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 illuminating	punct
6	illuminating	illuminate	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 high	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 period	det
8	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 illuminating	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 lawgiver	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 lawgiver	det
11	lawgiver	lawgiver	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 period	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 throw	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 throw	cc
14	throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 high	parataxis
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 glory	det
16	glory	glory	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 throw	obj
17	into	into	ADP	_	21 tower	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 tower	det
19	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 tower	amod
20	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 tower	compound
21	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 throw	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 growing	punct
23	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	28 growing	advmod
24	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 man	det
25	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 man	amod
26	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 growing	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 growing	aux
28	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 tower	conj
29	gray	gray	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 growing	xcomp
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 bent	cc
31	bent	bent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 gray	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 high	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	illuminate	gerund		the period and the lawgiver		vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent period=Destination
2	throw	infinitive		a glory	into the dark prison tower result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer glory=Theme into tower=Result
3	grow	present · progressive	a old man		gray property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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