Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Rose From Homer's Grave, sentence 12

It was a fair sunshiny day; a crowd of strangers drew near who had undertaken a pilgrimage to the grave of Homer.

Who acts: dream, crowd · What happens: be, draw, undertake · To what, where: fair sunshiny day, pilgrimage

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 (dream, crowd), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 day	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 day	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 day	det
4	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 day	amod
5	sunshiny	sunshiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 day	amod
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 drew	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 crowd	det
9	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 drew	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 strangers	case
11	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 crowd	nmod
12	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 day	parataxis
13	near	near	ADP	_	16 undertaken	mark
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 undertaken	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 undertaken	aux
16	undertaken	undertake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 drew	ccomp
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 pilgrimage	det
18	pilgrimage	pilgrimage	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 undertaken	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 grave	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 grave	det
21	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 undertaken	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 Homer	case
23	Homer	Homer	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 grave	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 day	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	dream	a fair sunshiny day		tree rules
2	draw	past	a crowd of strangers			tree rules
3	undertake	past · perfect		a pilgrimage	to the grave of Homer	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pilgrimage=Eventuality

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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