Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twentieth Evening, sentence 19

A troop of negroes are returning from a market in the interior of the land: the women, with copper buttons in their black hair, and decked out in clothes dyed with indigo, drive the heavily-laden oxen, on whose backs slumber the naked black children.

Who acts: troop, backs · What happens: return, deck out, dye, drive, lade, slumber · To what, where: women, market, clothes, laden oxen, naked black children

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 (troop, backs), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 troop	det
2	troop	troop	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 returning	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 negroes	case
4	negroes	negro	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 troop	nmod
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 returning	aux
6	returning	return	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 market	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 market	det
9	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 returning	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 interior	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 interior	det
12	interior	interior	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 market	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 land	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 land	det
15	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 interior	nmod
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 women	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 women	det
18	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 returning	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 buttons	punct
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 buttons	case
21	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 buttons	compound
22	buttons	button	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 women	conj
23	in	in	ADP	_	26 hair	case
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 hair	nmod:poss
25	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 hair	amod
26	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 buttons	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 decked	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 decked	cc
29	decked	deck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 returning	parataxis
30	out	out	ADP	_	29 decked	compound:prt
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 clothes	case
32	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	29 decked	obl
33	dyed	dye	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 clothes	acl
34	with	with	ADP	_	35 indigo	case
35	indigo	indigo	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 dyed	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 drive	punct
37	drive	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 decked	parataxis
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 oxen	det
39	heavily	heavily	ADV	_	41 laden	advmod
40	-	-	PUNCT	_	39 heavily	punct
41	laden	lade	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 oxen	amod
42	oxen	ox	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 drive	obj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 slumber	punct
44	on	on	SCONJ	_	47 slumber	mark
45	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	46 backs	nmod:poss
46	backs	back	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 slumber	nsubj
47	slumber	slumber	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 drive	conj
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 children	det
49	naked	naked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 children	amod
50	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 children	amod
51	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 slumber	obj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 returning	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	return	present · progressive	a troop of negroes	the women and copper buttons in buttons's black hair	a market in the interior of the land		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from market=Initial_Location
2	deck out	participle				in clothes	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in clothes=Theme
3	dye	participle		clothes not said here		with indigo	vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	drive	infinitive		the laden oxen			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme ox=Trajectory
5	lade	participle				heavily property	tree rules
6	slumber	present	backs	the naked black children			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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