Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor, sentence 60
And away sails the famous Dane, the astronomer, to live honored and free in a strange land.
What happens: sail, live, honor · To what, where: famous Dane
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: 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 sails | cc |
| 2 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 sails | advmod |
| 3 | sails | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Dane | det |
| 5 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Dane | amod |
| 6 | Dane | Dane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sails | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 astronomer | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 astronomer | det |
| 9 | astronomer | astronomer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Dane | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 live | punct |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 live | mark |
| 12 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 Dane | acl:relcl |
| 13 | honored | honor | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 live | xcomp |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 free | cc |
| 15 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 honored | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 land | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 land | det |
| 18 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 land | amod |
| 19 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 free | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sails | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail | present | the famous Dane | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dane=Theme | ||||
| 2 | live | to-infinitive | the famous Dane not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | honor | participle | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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