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title: The dead man is he whom they have been sent to seek--Firdusi--who ha… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The dead man is he whom they have been sent to seek--Firdusi--who has wandered the Thorny road of honor even to the end. Who acts: dead man, Firdusi. 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 eve
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor, sentence 22

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The dead man is he whom they have been sent to seek--Firdusi--who has wandered the Thorny road of honor even to the end.

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**Who acts:** dead man, Firdusi · **What happens:** be, send, seek, wander · **To what, where:** envy, Firdusi, Thorny road

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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 (dead man, Firdusi), 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:pg27200:190:22
# text = The dead man is he whom they have been sent to seek--Firdusi--who has wandered the Thorny road of honor even to the end.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	0	root	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl:relcl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Firdusi	Firdusi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
17	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	wandered	wander	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	acl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	Thorny	thorny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	honor	honor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	even	even	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the dead man |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **send** | present · perfect · passive |  | envy |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **seek** | to-infinitive |  | Firdusi |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent firdusi=Theme |
| 4 | **wander** | present · perfect | Firdusi | the Thorny road of honor |  |  | to the end |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme road=Trajectory |

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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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