Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Rose From Homer's Grave, sentence 3

Not far from Smyrna, where the merchant drives his loaded camels, proudly arching their long necks as they journey beneath the lofty pines over holy ground, I saw a hedge of roses.

Who acts: merchant, I · What happens: drive, load, arch, see · To what, where: loaded camels, long necks, hedge

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 (merchant, I), 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	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 far	advmod
2	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	31 saw	advmod
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 Smyrna	case
4	Smyrna	Smyrna	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 far	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 drives	punct
6	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	9 drives	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 merchant	det
8	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 drives	nsubj
9	drives	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 far	conj
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 camels	nmod:poss
11	loaded	load	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 camels	amod
12	camels	camel	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 drives	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 arching	punct
14	proudly	proudly	ADV	_	15 arching	advmod
15	arching	arch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 drives	advcl
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 necks	nmod:poss
17	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 necks	amod
18	necks	neck	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 arching	obj
19	as	as	ADP	_	21 journey	case
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 journey	nsubj
21	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 arching	obl
22	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	25 pines	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 pines	det
24	lofty	lofty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 pines	amod
25	pines	pine	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 arching	obl
26	over	over	ADP	_	28 ground	case
27	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 ground	amod
28	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 pines	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 far	punct
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 saw	nsubj
31	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 hedge	det
33	hedge	hedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 saw	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 roses	case
35	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 hedge	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	drive	present	the merchant	merchant's loaded camels		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme camel=Trajectory
2	load	participle				vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	arch	gerund	the merchant not said here	camels's long necks	as journey; beneath the lofty pines over holy ground; proudly property	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neck=Patient
4	see	past	I	a hedge of roses	far property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hedge=Stimulus

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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