Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor, sentence 64

We are in America, on the margin of one of the largest rivers; an innumerable crowd has gathered, for it is said that a ship is to sail against the wind and weather, bidding defiance to the elements.

Who acts: We, ship · What happens: be, gather, say, bid · To what, where: America, innumerable crowd, crowd, defiance · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (We, ship), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 America	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 America	cop
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 America	case
4	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 margin	punct
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 margin	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 margin	det
8	margin	margin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 America	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 one	case
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 margin	appos
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 rivers	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 rivers	det
13	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 rivers	amod
14	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 one	nmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 gathered	punct
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 crowd	det
17	innumerable	innumerable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 crowd	amod
18	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 gathered	nsubj:pass
19	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 gathered	aux
20	gathered	gather	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 one	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 said	punct
22	for	for	SCONJ	_	25 said	mark
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 said	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 said	aux:pass
25	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 gathered	conj
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 sail	mark
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 ship	det
28	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sail	nsubj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 sail	cop
30	to	to	PART	_	31 sail	mark
31	sail	sail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 said	ccomp
32	against	against	ADP	_	34 wind	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 wind	det
34	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sail	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 weather	cc
36	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 wind	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 bidding	punct
38	bidding	bid	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 sail	advcl
39	defiance	defiance	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 bidding	obj
40	to	to	ADP	_	42 elements	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 elements	det
42	elements	element	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 bidding	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 America	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	We		America and the margin		tree rules
2	gather	present · perfect · passive		a innumerable crowd			vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	say speech: assert	present · passive		crowd			tree rules
4	is	present	a ship			against the wind and weather; sail property	tree rules
5	bid	gerund	a ship not said here	defiance		to the elements	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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