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title: An old story yet lives of the "Thorny Road of Honor," of a marksman,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: An old story yet lives of the "Thorny Road of Honor," of a marksman, who indeed attained to rank and office, but only after a lifelong and weary strife against difficulties. Who acts: marksman. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor, with i
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor, sentence 1

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An old story yet lives of the "Thorny Road of Honor," of a marksman, who indeed attained to rank and office, but only after a lifelong and weary strife against difficulties.

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**Who acts:** marksman · **What happens:** attain, rank

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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 (marksman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg27200:190:1
# text = An old story yet lives of the "Thorny Road of Honor," of a marksman, who indeed attained to rank and office, but only after a lifelong and weary strife against difficulties.
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Thorny	Thorny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Road	Road	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Honor	Honor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	marksman	marksman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
20	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	attained	attain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl:relcl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	rank	rank	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	office	office	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
27	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
28	only	only	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
29	after	after	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
31	lifelong	lifelong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	weary	weary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	conj	_	_
34	strife	strife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
35	against	against	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	difficulties	difficulty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **attain** | participle | a marksman |  |  |  |  | indeed *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **rank** | to-infinitive | a marksman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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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