--- title: [1] To him was offered the honor of forming from the clay, a model o… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: [1] To him was offered the honor of forming from the clay, a model of the figure of him whose name, "John Christopher Frederick," had been written by his father in the Bible. Who acts: honor, father. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, (written For the Schiller --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/129/69/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [(written For the Schiller Album)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/129/) / 69 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), sentence 69 \[1\] To him was offered the honor of forming from the clay, a model of the figure of him whose name, "John Christopher Frederick," had been written by his father in the Bible. **Who acts:** honor, father · **What happens:** offer, form, write, model, figure · **To what, where:** foliage, clay, name, figure, model This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (honor, father), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:129:69 # text = [1] To him was offered the honor of forming from the clay, a model of the figure of him whose name, "John Christopher Frederick," had been written by his father in the Bible. 1 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 1 1 NUM LS NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ] ] PUNCT -RRB- _ 2 punct _ _ 4 To to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj:pass _ _ 6 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 offered offer VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 honor honor NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 of of SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 11 forming form VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 acl _ _ 12 from from ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 clay clay NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 model model NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 figure figure NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nmod _ _ 23 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj:pass _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 " " PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 John John PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 appos _ _ 28 Christopher Christopher PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 flat _ _ 29 Frederick Frederick PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 " " PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ _ 32 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 33 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 34 aux:pass _ _ 34 written write VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 acl:relcl _ _ 35 by by ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 Bible Bible PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **offer** | past · passive | | foliage | | | | a model of the figure of model *obl* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal honor=Theme | | 2 | **form** | gerund | the honor *not said here* | | | the clay | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **write** | past · perfect · passive | foliage's father in the Bible | name | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | | 4 | **model** | | | the figure of model | | | | | nom model «cognition transitive»: of=patient | | 5 | **figure** | | | model | | | | | nom figure «communication transitive»: of=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. - ← previous: [sentence 68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/129/68/) - next →: [sentence 70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/129/70/) - ↑ back to [(written For the Schiller Album)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/129/)