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title: He wanders on foot through the cities, and recites his verses for a… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He wanders on foot through the cities, and recites his verses for a livelihood; the thought for the morrow turns his hair gray! Who acts: Honor, thought. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor, sentence 15

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He wanders on foot through the cities, and recites his verses for a livelihood; the thought for the morrow turns his hair gray!

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**Who acts:** Honor, thought · **What happens:** wander, recite, turn, verse · **To what, where:** foot, verses, hair gray

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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 (Honor, thought), 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:pg27200:190:15
# text = He wanders on foot through the cities, and recites his verses for a livelihood; the thought for the morrow turns his hair gray!
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wanders	wander	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	through	through	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	recites	recite	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	verses	verse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	livelihood	livelihood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	gray	gray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wander** | present | Honor |  |  | foot |  | through the cities | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on foot=Trajectory |
| 2 | **recite** | present | Honor *not said here* | Honor's verses |  |  |  | for a livelihood | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent verse=Theme for livelihood=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **turn** | present | the thought for the morrow | Honor's hair gray |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent gray=Theme |
| 4 | **verse** |  | Honor |  |  |  |  |  | nom verse «communication transitive»: poss=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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