Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor, sentence 76

On mighty wings the spirit of history floats through the ages, and shows--giving courage and comfort, and awakening gentle thoughts--on the dark nightly background, but in gleaming pictures, the thorny path of honor, which does not, like a fairy tale, end in brilliancy and joy here on earth, but stretches out beyond all time, even into eternity!

Who acts: spirit, honor · What happens: float, show, give, awaken, gleam, not do · To what, where: mighty wings, courage, gentle thoughts, pictures

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 (spirit, honor), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 wings	case
2	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wings	amod
3	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 floats	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 spirit	det
5	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 floats	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 history	case
7	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spirit	nmod
8	floats	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	through	through	ADP	_	11 ages	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ages	det
11	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 floats	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 shows	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 shows	cc
14	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 floats	conj
15	--	--	PUNCT	_	16 giving	punct
16	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 shows	advcl
17	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 giving	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 comfort	cc
19	comfort	comfort	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 courage	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 awakening	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 awakening	cc
22	awakening	awaken	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 giving	conj
23	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 thoughts	amod
24	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 awakening	obj
25	--	--	PUNCT	_	30 background	punct
26	on	on	ADP	_	30 background	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 background	det
28	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 background	amod
29	nightly	nightly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 background	amod
30	background	background	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 thoughts	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 stretches	punct
32	but	but	CCONJ	_	62 stretches	cc
33	in	in	SCONJ	_	34 gleaming	mark
34	gleaming	gleam	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	62 stretches	advcl
35	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 gleaming	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 gleaming	punct
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 path	det
38	thorny	thorny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 path	amod
39	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 gleaming	obj
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 honor	case
41	honor	honor	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 path	nmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 does	punct
43	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	44 does	nsubj
44	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 honor	acl:relcl
45	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	44 does	advmod
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 tale	punct
47	like	like	ADP	_	50 tale	case
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 tale	det
49	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 tale	compound
50	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 does	obl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 end	punct
52	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 tale	conj
53	in	in	ADP	_	54 brilliancy	case
54	brilliancy	brilliancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 tale	nmod
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 joy	cc
56	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 brilliancy	conj
57	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	44 does	advmod
58	on	on	ADP	_	59 earth	case
59	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 here	obl
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 stretches	punct
61	but	but	CCONJ	_	62 stretches	cc
62	stretches	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 floats	conj
63	out	out	ADP	_	62 stretches	compound:prt
64	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	66 time	case
65	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	66 time	det
66	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 stretches	obl
67	,	,	PUNCT	_	70 eternity	punct
68	even	even	ADV	_	70 eternity	advmod
69	into	into	ADP	_	70 eternity	case
70	eternity	eternity	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 floats	obl
71	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 floats	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float	present	the spirit of history		mighty wings	through the ages; into eternity		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme on wing=Source through age=Trajectory into eternity=Destination
2	show	present	the spirit of history not said here					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	give	gerund	the spirit of history not said here	courage and comfort				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Theme
4	awaken	gerund	the spirit of history not said here	gentle thoughts and the dark nightly background				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location thought=Theme
5	gleam	gerund		pictures				tree rules
6	not do	present	honor		here		like a fairy tale in brilliancy and joy and end	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	stretch out	present	the spirit of history not said here			time		vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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