Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Rose From Homer's Grave, sentence 21
Like a mummy, the flower now rests in his "Iliad," and, as in her dream, she hears him say, as he opens the book, "Here is a rose from the grave of Homer."
Who acts: flower, rose, Asia · What happens: rest, hear, say, open, be, dream · To what, where: Iliad, Asia, book, rose, 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 (flower, rose, Asia), 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 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 3 mummy | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 mummy | det |
| 3 | mummy | mummy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rests | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 mummy | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 flower | det |
| 6 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rests | nsubj |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 rests | advmod |
| 8 | rests | rest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 Iliad | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 Iliad | nmod:poss |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Iliad | punct |
| 12 | Iliad | iliad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rests | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Iliad | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Iliad | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 dream | cc |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 and | punct |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 dream | case |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 dream | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 dream | nmod:poss |
| 20 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Iliad | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 hears | punct |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 hears | nsubj |
| 23 | hears | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 rests | advcl |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 hears | obj |
| 25 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 hears | xcomp |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 opens | punct |
| 27 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 29 opens | mark |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 opens | nsubj |
| 29 | opens | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 say | ccomp |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 book | det |
| 31 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 opens | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 book | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 Here | punct |
| 34 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 37 rose | advmod |
| 35 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 rose | cop |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 rose | det |
| 37 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 opens | obl |
| 38 | from | from | ADP | _ | 40 grave | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 grave | det |
| 40 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 rose | nmod |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 Homer | case |
| 42 | Homer | Homer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 grave | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 rests | punct |
| 44 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 rests | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rest | present | the flower | Asia's Iliad and rose's dream | now | like a mummy | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in iliad=Location | ||
| 2 | hear | present | rose | Asia | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | infinitive | Asia not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | open | present | Asia | the book | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location book=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | a rose | the grave of Homer; here | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | 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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