Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor, sentence 74
Thus the thorny path of honor shows itself as a glory, surrounding the earth with its beams.
Who acts: thorny path, path · What happens: show, surround, beam · To what, where: path, earth
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 (thorny path, path), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 7 shows | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 path | det |
| 3 | thorny | thorny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 path | amod |
| 4 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shows | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 honor | case |
| 6 | honor | honor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 path | nmod |
| 7 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 shows | obj |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 glory | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 glory | det |
| 11 | glory | glory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shows | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 surrounding | punct |
| 13 | surrounding | surround | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 shows | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 earth | det |
| 15 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 surrounding | obj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 beams | case |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 beams | nmod:poss |
| 18 | beams | beam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 surrounding | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 shows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | the thorny path of honor | path | as a glory; thus property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent itself=Recipient | |||
| 2 | surround | gerund | the thorny path of honor not said here | the earth | with path's beams | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent earth=Destination with beam=Theme | |||
| 3 | beam | path | nom beam «communication transitive»: poss=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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