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title: One picture after another springs up from the east, from the west, f… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: One picture after another springs up from the east, from the west, far removed from each other in time and place, and yet each one forming a portion of the thorny road of honor, on which the thistle indeed displays a flower, but only to adorn the grave. Who acts: One picture, one, thistle. A sentenc
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor, sentence 18

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One picture after another springs up from the east, from the west, far removed from each other in time and place, and yet each one forming a portion of the thorny road of honor, on which the thistle indeed displays a flower, but only to adorn the grave.

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**Who acts:** One picture, one, thistle · **What happens:** spring up, remove, form, display, adorn · **To what, where:** east, west, each, portion, flower, grave

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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 (One picture, one, thistle), 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:pg27200:190:18
# text = One picture after another springs up from the east, from the west, far removed from each other in time and place, and yet each one forming a portion of the thorny road of honor, on which the thistle indeed displays a flower, but only to adorn the grave.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	after	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	nmod	_	_
5	springs	spring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	west	west	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	_
16	removed	remove	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	16	obl	_	_
19	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	fixed	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	det	_	_
28	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	forming	form	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	portion	portion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	thorny	thorny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	honor	honor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
39	on	on	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	44	obl	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	thistle	thistle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
43	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
44	displays	display	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	parataxis	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
48	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
49	only	only	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
50	to	to	PART	TO	_	51	mark	_	_
51	adorn	adorn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	conj	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spring up** | present | One picture after another |  |  | the east |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **remove** | participle |  | the west *not said here* |  | each | time | far *property* | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from each=Source |
| 3 | **form** | gerund | each one | a portion of the thorny road of honor |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location portion=Theme |
| 4 | **display** | present | the thistle | a flower |  |  |  | indeed *property* | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Theme |
| 5 | **adorn** | to-infinitive | the thistle *not said here* | the grave |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme grave=Destination |

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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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