Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Seventeenth Evening, sentence 11
In these the silent Turk sits smoking his long pipe, the handsome Greek leans against the pillar and gazes at the upraised trophies and lofty masts, memorials of power that is gone.
Who acts: handsome Greek, power · What happens: sit, smoke, lean, gaze, upraise, be · To what, where: silent Turk, long pipe, pillar
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Seventeenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (handsome Greek, power), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 Turk | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 Turk | det |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Turk | det |
| 4 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Turk | amod |
| 5 | Turk | Turk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 sits | obl |
| 6 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | smoking | smoke | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 sits | xcomp |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 pipe | nmod:poss |
| 9 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 pipe | amod |
| 10 | pipe | pipe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 smoking | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 leans | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Greek | det |
| 13 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Greek | amod |
| 14 | Greek | Greek | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 leans | nsubj |
| 15 | leans | lean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 sits | parataxis |
| 16 | against | against | ADP | _ | 18 pillar | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 pillar | det |
| 18 | pillar | pillar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 leans | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 gazes | cc |
| 20 | gazes | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 leans | conj |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 trophies | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 trophies | det |
| 23 | upraised | upraise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 trophies | amod |
| 24 | trophies | trophy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 gazes | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 masts | cc |
| 26 | lofty | lofty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 masts | amod |
| 27 | masts | mast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 trophies | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 memorials | punct |
| 29 | memorials | memorial | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 trophies | conj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 power | case |
| 31 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 memorials | nmod |
| 32 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 gone | nsubj |
| 33 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 gone | cop |
| 34 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 power | acl:relcl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sits | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | present | this silent Turk | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | smoke | gerund | grass's long pipe | vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent pipe=Source | |||||
| 3 | lean | present | the handsome Greek | the pillar | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against pillar=Location | ||||
| 4 | gaze | present | the handsome Greek not said here | at the upraised trophies and lofty masts and memorials of power | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at trophy=Theme | ||||
| 5 | upraise | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | is | present | power | gone property | tree rules |
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.
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