Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor, sentence 75

Thrice happy he who is chosen to be a wanderer there, and, without merit of his own, to be placed between the builder of the bridge and the earth--between Providence and the human race.

What happens: choose, be, place · To what, where: beam, wanderer, builder

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	Thrice	thrice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 happy	amod
2	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 chosen	advcl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 chosen	nsubj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 chosen	nsubj:pass
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 chosen	aux:pass
6	chosen	choose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	10 wanderer	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 wanderer	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 wanderer	det
10	wanderer	wanderer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chosen	xcomp
11	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 wanderer	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 merit	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 merit	cc
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 merit	punct
15	without	without	ADP	_	16 merit	case
16	merit	merit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chosen	parataxis
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 own	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 own	nmod:poss
19	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 merit	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 placed	punct
21	to	to	PART	_	23 placed	mark
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 placed	aux:pass
23	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 merit	acl
24	between	between	ADP	_	26 builder	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 builder	det
26	builder	builder	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 placed	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 bridge	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 bridge	det
29	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 builder	nmod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 earth	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 earth	det
32	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 builder	conj
33	--	--	PUNCT	_	35 Providence	punct
34	between	between	ADP	_	35 Providence	case
35	Providence	Providence	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 placed	obl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 race	cc
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 race	det
38	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 race	amod
39	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 Providence	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 chosen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	choose	present · passive	beam			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	is a	to-infinitive	a wanderer	there		tree rules
3	place	to-infinitive · passive		the builder of the bridge and the earth	between Providence and the human race	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: between builder=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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