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title: One picture after another comes crowding on; the thorny path of hono… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: One picture after another comes crowding on; the thorny path of honor and of fame is over-filled. Who acts: One picture. 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 every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor, sentence 38

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One picture after another comes crowding on; the thorny path of honor and of fame is over-filled.

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**Who acts:** One picture · **What happens:** come, crowd on, be · **To what, where:** thorny path

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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), 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:pg27200:190:38
# text = One picture after another comes crowding on; the thorny path of honor and of fame is over-filled.
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	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	crowding	crowd	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	xcomp	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	thorny	thorny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	honor	honor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	fame	fame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	over-filled	over-filled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | One picture after another | the thorny path of honor |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **crowd on** | gerund | One picture after another *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | One picture after another *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of fame; over-filled *property* | tree rules |

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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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