Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Rose From Homer's Grave, sentence 15

The rose faded with grief, and lay between the leaves of the book, which he opened in his own home, saying, "Here is a rose from the grave of Homer."

Who acts: rose, book · What happens: fade, lay, open, say, be · To what, where: leaves, own home, grave · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (rose, book), 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 rose	det
2	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 faded	nsubj
3	faded	fade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 grief	case
5	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 faded	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 lay	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 lay	cc
8	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 faded	parataxis
9	between	between	ADP	_	11 leaves	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 leaves	det
11	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 lay	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 book	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 book	det
14	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 leaves	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 opened	punct
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 opened	nsubj
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 opened	nsubj
18	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 book	acl:relcl
19	in	in	ADP	_	22 home	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 home	nmod:poss
21	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 home	amod
22	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 opened	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 saying	punct
24	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 lay	advcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Here	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 Here	punct
27	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 saying	advmod
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 Here	cop
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 rose	det
30	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 Here	nsubj
31	from	from	ADP	_	33 grave	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 grave	det
33	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 saying	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 Homer	case
35	Homer	Homer	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 grave	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 lay	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	fade	past	the rose		with grief	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with grief=Instrument
2	lay	infinitive		the leaves of the book		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent between leaf=Destination
3	open	past	the book	crowd's own home		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in home=Location
4	say speech: assert	gerund		the grave of Homer		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is in a quote	present	a rose		here property	tree rules

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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