Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 90

The dromedarys stood still in terror, while the merchants drew their caftans over their heads, and threw themselves on the ground before me, as they do before Allah, their god.

Who acts: dromedarys, merchants · What happens: stand, draw, throw, do · To what, where: terror, caftans, heads, merchants, ground

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 (dromedarys, merchants), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dromedarys	det
2	dromedarys	dromedary	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stood	nsubj
3	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	still	still	ADV	_	3 stood	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 terror	case
6	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stood	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 drew	punct
8	while	while	SCONJ	_	11 drew	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 merchants	det
10	merchants	merchant	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 drew	nsubj
11	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stood	conj
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 caftans	nmod:poss
13	caftans	caftan	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 drew	obj
14	over	over	ADP	_	16 heads	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 heads	nmod:poss
16	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 drew	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 threw	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 threw	cc
19	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stood	parataxis
20	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 threw	obj
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 ground	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 ground	det
23	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 threw	obl
24	before	before	ADP	_	25 me	case
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 threw	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 do	punct
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 do	mark
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 do	nsubj
29	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 threw	conj
30	before	before	ADP	_	31 Allah	case
31	Allah	Allah	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 do	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 god	punct
33	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 god	nmod:poss
34	god	god	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 Allah	appos
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	stand	past	the dromedarys		terror	still	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in terror=Location
2	draw	past	the merchants	merchants's caftans	merchants's heads		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent caftan=Theme
3	throw	past		merchants = merchant	the ground	before me	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme on ground=Destination
4	do	present	dromedarys = dromedary			before Allah	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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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