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title: On mighty wings the spirit of history floats through the ages, and s… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: On mighty wings the spirit of history floats through the ages, and shows--giving courage and comfort, and awakening gentle thoughts--on the dark nightly background, but in gleaming pictures, the thorny path of honor, which does not, like a fairy tale, end in brilliancy and joy here on earth, but str
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor, sentence 76

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On mighty wings the spirit of history floats through the ages, and shows--giving courage and comfort, and awakening gentle thoughts--on the dark nightly background, but in gleaming pictures, the thorny path of honor, which does not, like a fairy tale, end in brilliancy and joy here on earth, but stretches out beyond all time, even into eternity!

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**Who acts:** spirit, honor · **What happens:** float, show, give, awaken, gleam, not do · **To what, where:** mighty wings, courage, gentle thoughts, pictures

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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 (spirit, honor), 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:pg27200:190:76
# text = On mighty wings the spirit of history floats through the ages, and shows--giving courage and comfort, and awakening gentle thoughts--on the dark nightly background, but in gleaming pictures, the thorny path of honor, which does not, like a fairy tale, end in brilliancy and joy here on earth, but stretches out beyond all time, even into eternity!
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	floats	float	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	through	through	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	ages	age	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
17	courage	courage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	comfort	comfort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	awakening	awaken	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
23	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	nightly	nightly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	background	background	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	62	punct	_	_
32	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	62	cc	_	_
33	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
34	gleaming	gleam	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	62	advcl	_	_
35	pictures	picture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	thorny	thorny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	honor	honor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	44	nsubj	_	_
44	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	acl:relcl	_	_
45	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	44	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
47	like	like	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
48	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
49	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	compound	_	_
50	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
52	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	conj	_	_
53	in	in	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	brilliancy	brilliancy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
56	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	conj	_	_
57	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	44	advmod	_	_
58	on	on	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
59	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	62	punct	_	_
61	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	62	cc	_	_
62	stretches	stretch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
63	out	out	ADP	RP	_	62	compound:prt	_	_
64	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	66	case	_	_
65	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	66	det	_	_
66	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	70	punct	_	_
68	even	even	ADV	RB	_	70	advmod	_	_
69	into	into	ADP	IN	_	70	case	_	_
70	eternity	eternity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
71	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **float** | present | the spirit of history |  |  | mighty wings | through the ages; into eternity |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme on wing=Source through age=Trajectory into eternity=Destination |
| 2 | **show** | present | the spirit of history *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **give** | gerund | the spirit of history *not said here* | courage and comfort |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Theme |
| 4 | **awaken** | gerund | the spirit of history *not said here* | gentle thoughts and the dark nightly background |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location thought=Theme |
| 5 | **gleam** | gerund |  | pictures |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **do** | present | honor |  |  | here |  | like a fairy tale in brilliancy and joy and end | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **stretch out** | present | the spirit of history *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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