Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 88

Here I met a caravan, and the travellers had just killed their last camel, to obtain water; there was very little for them, and they continued their painful journey beneath the burning sun, and over the hot sands, which stretched before them a vast, boundless desert.

Who acts: I, little, travellers, hot sands · What happens: meet, kill, obtain, be, continue, stretch · To what, where: caravan, hot sands, travellers, water, painful journey, vast boundless desert

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, little, travellers, hot sands), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 met	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 met	nsubj
3	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 caravan	det
5	caravan	caravan	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 met	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 killed	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 killed	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 travellers	det
9	travellers	traveller	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 killed	nsubj:pass
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 killed	aux
11	just	just	ADV	_	12 killed	advmod
12	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 met	conj
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 camel	nmod:poss
14	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 camel	amod
15	camel	camel	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 killed	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 obtain	punct
17	to	to	PART	_	18 obtain	mark
18	obtain	obtain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 met	parataxis
19	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 obtain	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 was	punct
21	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	22 was	expl
22	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 obtain	advcl
23	very	very	ADV	_	24 little	advmod
24	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 was	nsubj
25	for	for	ADP	_	26 them	case
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 little	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 continued	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 continued	cc
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 continued	nsubj
30	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 met	parataxis
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 journey	nmod:poss
32	painful	painful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 journey	amod
33	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 continued	obj
34	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	37 sun	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 sun	det
36	burning	burning	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 sun	compound
37	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 continued	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 sands	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 sands	cc
40	over	over	ADP	_	43 sands	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 sands	det
42	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 sands	amod
43	sands	sand	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 met	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 stretched	punct
45	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	46 stretched	nsubj
46	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 sands	acl:relcl
47	before	before	ADP	_	48 them	case
48	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 stretched	obl
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 desert	det
50	vast	vast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 desert	amod
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 vast	punct
52	boundless	boundless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 desert	amod
53	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 stretched	obj
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 met	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	meet	past	I	a caravan	the hot sands; here			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent caravan=Co-Agent
2	kill	past · perfect · passive		the travellers				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer camel=Result
3	obtain	to-infinitive		water				vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset water=Theme
4	be	past	little for travellers		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	continue	past	travellers = traveller	travellers's painful journey			beneath the burning sun	vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent journey=Theme
6	stretch	past	the hot sands	a vast boundless desert		before sands = sand		vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent desert=Patient
7	journey		travellers = traveller					nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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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