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title: Griffenfeldt, a Danish Prometheus, bound to the rocky island of Munk… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Griffenfeldt, a Danish Prometheus, bound to the rocky island of Munkholm. 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 63

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Griffenfeldt, a Danish Prometheus, bound to the rocky island of Munkholm.

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**What happens:** bind · **To what, where:** Danish Prometheus

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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: 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:pg27200:190:63
# text = Griffenfeldt, a Danish Prometheus, bound to the rocky island of Munkholm.
1	Griffenfeldt	Griffenfeldt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Danish	danish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Prometheus	prometheus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	bound	bind	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	rocky	rocky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Munkholm	Munkholm	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bind** | participle |  | a Danish Prometheus *not said here* |  |  |  | to the rocky island of Munkholm | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to island=Co-Patient |

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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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