Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Rose From Homer's Grave, sentence 1
Al the songs of the east speak of the love of the nightingale for the rose in the silent starlight night.
Who acts: east speak · What happens: sing, love · To what, where: nightingale
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Rose From Homer's Grave. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (east speak), 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 | Al | Al | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 songs | det |
| 3 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Al | nmod |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 speak | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 speak | det |
| 6 | east | east | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 speak | amod |
| 7 | speak | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 songs | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 love | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 love | det |
| 10 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 speak | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 nightingale | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 nightingale | det |
| 13 | nightingale | nightingale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 love | nmod |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 rose | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 rose | det |
| 16 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 nightingale | nmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 night | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 night | det |
| 19 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 night | amod |
| 20 | starlight | starlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 night | compound |
| 21 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rose | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Al | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing | the east speak of the love of the nightingale for the rose in the silent starlight night | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 2 | love | the nightingale for the rose in the silent starlight night | nom love «feeling transitive»: of=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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