Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Rose From Homer's Grave, sentence 10
A camel-driver came by, with his loaded camels and his black slaves; his little son found the dead bird, and buried the lovely songster in the grave of the great Homer, while the rose trembled in the wind.
Who acts: camel driver, little son · What happens: come, load, find, bury, tremble · To what, where: dead bird, lovely songster, grave, rose, wind
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 (camel driver, little son), 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 | 4 driver | det |
| 2 | camel | camel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 driver | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 camel | punct |
| 4 | driver | driver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 camels | case |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 camels | punct |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 camels | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 camels | nmod:poss |
| 10 | loaded | load | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 camels | amod |
| 11 | camels | camel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 came | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 slaves | cc |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 slaves | nmod:poss |
| 14 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 slaves | amod |
| 15 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 camels | conj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 found | punct |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 son | nmod:poss |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 son | amod |
| 19 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 found | nsubj |
| 20 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 bird | det |
| 22 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 bird | amod |
| 23 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 found | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 buried | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 buried | cc |
| 26 | buried | bury | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 songster | det |
| 28 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 songster | amod |
| 29 | songster | songster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 buried | obj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 grave | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 grave | det |
| 32 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 buried | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 Homer | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Homer | det |
| 35 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 Homer | amod |
| 36 | Homer | Homer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 grave | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 rose | punct |
| 38 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 40 rose | mark |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 rose | det |
| 40 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 buried | obl |
| 41 | trembled | tremble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 rose | acl |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 wind | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 wind | det |
| 44 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 trembled | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a camel driver | by driver's loaded camels and driver's black slaves | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by camel=Location | ||||
| 2 | load | participle | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | find | past | driver's little son | the dead bird | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Topic | ||||
| 4 | bury | past | a camel driver not said here | the lovely songster | the grave of the great Homer | the rose obl | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent songster=Theme in grave=Destination | ||
| 5 | tremble | participle | the rose not said here | the wind | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wind=Location |
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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