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title: The discoverer of a world--he who lifted the American gold land from… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The discoverer of a world--he who lifted the American gold land from the sea, and gave it to his king--he is rewarded with iron chains. Who acts: discoverer. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor, sentence 36

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The discoverer of a world--he who lifted the American gold land from the sea, and gave it to his king--he is rewarded with iron chains.

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**Who acts:** discoverer · **What happens:** lift, give, reward · **To what, where:** American gold land, sea, land, king, discoverer

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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 (discoverer), 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:pg27200:190:36
# text = The discoverer of a world--he who lifted the American gold land from the sea, and gave it to his king--he is rewarded with iron chains.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	discoverer	discoverer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	lifted	lift	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	rewarded	reward	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	chains	chain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lift** | past | the discoverer of a world | the American gold land |  | the sea |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent land=Theme from sea=Destination |
| 2 | **give** | past | the discoverer of a world *not said here* | land | discoverer's king |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to king=Recipient |
| 3 | **reward** | present · passive |  | discoverer |  |  |  | with iron chains | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: subject=Recipient with chain=Theme |

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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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