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title: He is the submissive slave of Camoens, and but for him, and for the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He is the submissive slave of Camoens, and but for him, and for the copper coins thrown to him by the passers-by, his master, the poet of the "Lusiad," would die of hunger. Who acts: hair. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor, with its de
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor, sentence 24

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He is the submissive slave of Camoens, and but for him, and for the copper coins thrown to him by the passers-by, his master, the poet of the "Lusiad," would die of hunger.

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**Who acts:** hair · **What happens:** be, throw, die · **To what, where:** submissive slave, copper coins, hair

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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 (hair), 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:pg27200:190:24
# text = He is the submissive slave of Camoens, and but for him, and for the copper coins thrown to him by the passers-by, his master, the poet of the "Lusiad," would die of hunger.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	submissive	submissive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	slave	slave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Camoens	Camoens	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	copper	copper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obl	_	_
19	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	passers	passer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	poet	poet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	Lusiad	Lusiad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	40	punct	_	_
39	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	hunger	hunger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | hair | the submissive slave |  |  |  | of Camoens | tree rules |
| 2 | **throw** | participle |  | the copper coins and hair's master *not said here* | hair |  |  | by the passers | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent to he=Destination |
| 3 | **die** | would | hair *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the copper coins and hair's master; of hunger | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of hunger=Causer |

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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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