--- title: Out of the "Clouds" of Aristophanes, satire and humor are pouring do… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Out of the "Clouds" of Aristophanes, satire and humor are pouring down in streams upon the audience; on the stage Socrates, the most remarkable man in Athens, he who had been the shield and defence of the people against the thirty tyrants, is held up mentally and bodily to ridicule--Socrates, who sa --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/190/9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Thorny Road of Honor](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/190/) / 9 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor, sentence 9 Out of the "Clouds" of Aristophanes, satire and humor are pouring down in streams upon the audience; on the stage Socrates, the most remarkable man in Athens, he who had been the shield and defence of the people against the thirty tyrants, is held up mentally and bodily to ridicule--Socrates, who saved Alcibiades and Xenophon in the turmoil of battle, and whose genius soared far above the gods of the ancients. **Who acts:** Clouds, Athens, pouring, Socrates, genius · **What happens:** pour down, be, hold up, ridicule, save, soar · **To what, where:** streams, shield, Socrates, Alcibiades, turmoil, Aristophanes 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 (Clouds, Athens, pouring, Socrates), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:190:9 # text = Out of the "Clouds" of Aristophanes, satire and humor are pouring down in streams upon the audience; on the stage Socrates, the most remarkable man in Athens, he who had been the shield and defence of the people against the thirty tyrants, is held up mentally and bodily to ridicule--Socrates, who saved Alcibiades and Xenophon in the turmoil of battle, and whose genius soared far above the gods of the ancients. 1 Out out ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 Clouds cloud NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Aristophanes Aristophanes PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 satire satire NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 humor humor NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 13 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 pouring pour VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 51 csubj:pass _ _ 15 down down ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 streams stream NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 18 upon upon ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 audience audience NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 22 on on ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 stage stage NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 Socrates Socrates PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 28 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 29 advmod _ _ 29 remarkable remarkable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 appos _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 Athens Athens PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 34 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 35 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 39 nsubj _ _ 36 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 37 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 39 cop _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 shield shield NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 parataxis _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 defence defence NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 conj _ _ 42 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 nmod _ _ 45 against against ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 47 thirty thirty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 48 nummod _ _ 48 tyrants tyrant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 50 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 51 aux:pass _ _ 51 held hold VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 52 up up ADP RP _ 51 compound:prt _ _ 53 mentally mentally ADV RB _ 51 advmod _ _ 54 and and CCONJ CC _ 57 cc _ _ 55 bodily bodily ADV RB _ 57 advmod _ _ 56 to to PART TO _ 57 mark _ _ 57 ridicule ridicule VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 51 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 58 -- -- PUNCT , _ 59 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 59 Socrates Socrates PROPN NNP Number=Sing 57 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 60 , , PUNCT , _ 62 punct _ _ 61 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 62 nsubj _ _ 62 saved save VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 59 acl:relcl _ _ 63 Alcibiades Alcibiade PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 62 obj _ _ 64 and and CCONJ CC _ 65 cc _ _ 65 Xenophon Xenophon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 63 conj _ _ 66 in in ADP IN _ 68 case _ _ 67 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 68 det _ _ 68 turmoil turmoil NOUN NN Number=Sing 62 obl _ _ 69 of of ADP IN _ 70 case _ _ 70 battle battle NOUN NN Number=Sing 68 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 71 , , PUNCT , _ 75 punct _ _ 72 and and CCONJ CC _ 75 cc _ _ 73 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 74 nmod:poss _ _ 74 genius genius NOUN NN Number=Sing 75 nsubj _ _ 75 soared soar VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 62 conj _ _ 76 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 75 advmod _ _ 77 above above ADP IN _ 79 case _ _ 78 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 79 det _ _ 79 gods god NOUN NNS Number=Plur 75 obl _ _ 80 of of ADP IN _ 82 case _ _ 81 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 82 det _ _ 82 ancients ancient NOUN NNS Number=Plur 79 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 83 . . PUNCT . _ 51 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pour down** | present · progressive | the Clouds of Aristophanes and satire and humor | | | streams upon the audience | | down *property* | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | | 2 | **is a** | past · perfect | Athens | the shield and defence of the people against the thirty tyrants | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **hold up** | present · passive | pouring | | | | | mentally *property* | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP» | | 4 | **ridicule** | to-infinitive | pouring *not said here* | Socrates | | | | bodily *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent socrates=Theme | | 5 | **save** | past | Socrates | Alcibiades and Xenophon | | the turmoil of battle | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alcibiade=Theme | | 6 | **soar** | past | genius | | | | | above the gods of the ancients; far *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme above god=Trajectory | | 7 | **cloud** *in a quote* | | | Aristophanes | | | | | nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient | | 8 | **defend** | | | the people against the thirty tyrants | | | | | nom defence «process transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/190/8/) - next →: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/190/10/) - ↑ back to [The Thorny Road of Honor](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/190/)