Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Rose From Homer's Grave, sentence 20

Then footsteps approached, strangers, such as the rose had seen in her dream, came by, and among them was a poet from the north; he plucked the rose, pressed a kiss upon her fresh mouth, and carried her away to the home of the clouds and the northern lights.

Who acts: footsteps, strangers, Asia, rose · What happens: approach, see, come by, be, pluck, press · To what, where: strangers, rose, dream, poet, north, kiss

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 (footsteps, strangers, Asia, rose), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 approached	advmod
2	footsteps	footstep	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 approached	nsubj
3	approached	approach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 strangers	punct
5	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 approached	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 seen	punct
7	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=SCONJ	12 seen	mark
8	as	as	ADP	_	7 such	fixed
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 rose	det
10	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 seen	nsubj:pass
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 seen	aux
12	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 strangers	acl:relcl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 dream	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 dream	nmod:poss
15	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 seen	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 came	punct
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 approached	conj
18	by	by	ADP	_	17 came	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 poet	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 poet	cc
21	among	among	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 poet	obl
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 poet	cop
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 poet	det
25	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	obl
26	from	from	ADP	_	28 north	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 north	det
28	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 poet	nmod
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 plucked	punct
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 plucked	nsubj
31	plucked	pluck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 approached	parataxis
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 rose	det
33	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 plucked	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 pressed	punct
35	pressed	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 plucked	conj
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 kiss	det
37	kiss	kiss	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 pressed	obj
38	upon	upon	ADP	_	41 mouth	case
39	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 mouth	nmod:poss
40	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 mouth	amod
41	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 pressed	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 carried	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 carried	cc
44	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 approached	conj
45	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 carried	obj
46	away	away	ADV	_	44 carried	advmod
47	to	to	ADP	_	49 home	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 home	det
49	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 carried	obl
50	of	of	ADP	_	52 clouds	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 clouds	det
52	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 home	nmod
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 lights	cc
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 lights	det
55	northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 lights	amod
56	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 clouds	conj
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 approached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	approach	past	footsteps	strangers		then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	past · perfect · passive	strangers not said here	the rose	rose's dream			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
3	come by	past	footsteps not said here					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is a	past		a poet	the north		among footsteps = footstep	tree rules
5	pluck	past	Asia	the rose				vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rose=Patient
6	press	past	Asia not said here	a kiss			upon rose's fresh mouth	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kiss=Theme
7	carry away	past	footsteps not said here	rose	the home of the clouds and the northern lights		away property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to home=Destination
8	dream		rose					nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=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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