Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twentieth Evening, sentence 21

They approach the caravan; the young merchant sits pensive and motionless, thinking of his beautiful wife, dreaming, in the land of the blacks, of his white lily beyond the desert.

Who acts: negroes, young merchant · What happens: approach, sit, think, dream · To what, where: caravan, land

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 (negroes, young merchant), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 approach	nsubj
2	approach	approach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 caravan	det
4	caravan	caravan	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 approach	obj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 sits	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 merchant	det
7	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 merchant	amod
8	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sits	nsubj
9	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 approach	conj
10	pensive	pensive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sits	xcomp
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 motionless	cc
12	motionless	motionless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 pensive	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 thinking	punct
14	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 sits	advcl
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 wife	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 wife	nmod:poss
17	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 wife	amod
18	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 thinking	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 dreaming	punct
20	dreaming	dream	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 thinking	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 land	punct
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 land	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 land	det
24	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 dreaming	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 blacks	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 blacks	det
27	blacks	black	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 land	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 lily	punct
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 lily	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 lily	nmod:poss
31	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 lily	amod
32	lily	lily	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 dreaming	obl
33	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	35 desert	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 desert	det
35	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 lily	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 approach	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	approach	present	negroes = negro	the caravan			vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent caravan=Theme
2	sit	present	the young merchant			pensive property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	think speech: other	gerund	the young merchant not said here			of lion's beautiful wife	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	dream	gerund	the young merchant not said here		the land of the blacks	of lion's white lily beyond the desert	vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent

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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