Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Nineteenth Evening, sentence 4
From this spot, whence the eagles of Rome once flew abroad, whence they 'came, saw, and conquered,' our door leads into a little mean house, built of clay between two pillars; the wild vine hangs like a mourning garland over the crooked window.
Who acts: eagles, door, wild vine · What happens: fly, come, see, conquer, lead, build · To what, where: spot, little mean house, crooked window · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Nineteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eagles, door, wild vine), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 spot | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 spot | det |
| 3 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 flew | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 spot | punct |
| 5 | whence | whence | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 flew | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 eagles | det |
| 7 | eagles | eagle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 flew | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Rome | case |
| 9 | Rome | Rome | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 eagles | nmod |
| 10 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 11 flew | advmod |
| 11 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | abroad | abroad | ADV | _ | 11 flew | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 came | punct |
| 14 | whence | whence | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 came | advmod |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 came | nsubj |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 they | punct |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 flew | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 saw | punct |
| 19 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 came | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 conquered | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 conquered | cc |
| 22 | conquered | conquer | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 saw | ccomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 leads | punct |
| 24 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 27 leads | punct |
| 25 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 door | nmod:poss |
| 26 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 leads | nsubj |
| 27 | leads | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 conquered | conj |
| 28 | into | into | ADP | _ | 32 house | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 house | det |
| 30 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 house | amod |
| 31 | mean | mean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 house | amod |
| 32 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 leads | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 built | punct |
| 34 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 house | acl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 clay | case |
| 36 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 built | obl |
| 37 | between | between | ADP | _ | 39 pillars | case |
| 38 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 39 pillars | nummod |
| 39 | pillars | pillar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 clay | nmod |
| 40 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 44 hangs | punct |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 vine | det |
| 42 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 vine | amod |
| 43 | vine | vine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 hangs | nsubj |
| 44 | hangs | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 flew | conj |
| 45 | like | like | ADP | _ | 48 garland | case |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 garland | det |
| 47 | mourning | mourning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 garland | compound |
| 48 | garland | garland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 hangs | obl |
| 49 | over | over | ADP | _ | 52 window | case |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 window | det |
| 51 | crooked | crooked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 window | amod |
| 52 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 hangs | obl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | the eagles of Rome | this spot | abroad, once, whence property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from spot=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | come | past | eagles = eagle | whence property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | past | eagles = eagle not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | conquer | past | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | lead | present | our door | a little mean house | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into house=Destination | ||||
| 6 | build | participle | a little mean house not said here | of clay between two pillars | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 7 | hang | present | the wild vine | the crooked window | like a mourning garland | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over window=Location |
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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