Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twentieth Evening, sentence 11

I saw them rest by the wellside among the stunted palms; they thrust the knife into the breast of the camel that had fallen, and roasted its flesh by the fire.

Who acts: I, shots, camel · What happens: see, rest, stunt, thrust, fall, roast · To what, where: shots, knife, breast, flesh

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twentieth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, shots, camel), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 saw	obj
4	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 saw	xcomp
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 wellside	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wellside	det
7	wellside	wellside	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rest	obl
8	among	among	ADP	_	11 palms	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 palms	det
10	stunted	stunt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 palms	amod
11	palms	palm	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rest	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 thrust	punct
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 thrust	nsubj
14	thrust	thrust	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	parataxis
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 knife	det
16	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 thrust	obj
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 breast	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 breast	det
19	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 thrust	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 camel	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 camel	det
22	camel	camel	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 breast	nmod
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 fallen	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 fallen	aux
25	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 camel	acl:relcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 roasted	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 roasted	cc
28	roasted	roast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 thrust	conj
29	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 flesh	nmod:poss
30	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 roasted	obj
31	by	by	ADP	_	33 fire	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 fire	det
33	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 roasted	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	I	shots = shot			tree rules
2	rest	infinitive	shots = shot not said here			by the wellside; among the stunted palms	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by wellside=Location
3	stunt	participle					tree rules
4	thrust	past	shots = shot	the knife	the breast of the camel		vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme
5	fall	past · perfect	the camel				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	roast	past	shots = shot not said here	camel's flesh		by the fire	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent flesh=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.

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