Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Rose From Homer's Grave, sentence 5
On the rose-bush grew a flower, more beautiful than them all, and to her the nightingale sung of his woes; but the rose remained silent, not even a dewdrop lay like a tear of sympathy on her leaves.
Who acts: rose bush, rose · What happens: grow, sing, remain, lay · To what, where: flower, nightingale, dewdrop, leaves
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 bush, 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 5 bush | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bush | det |
| 3 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bush | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 rose | punct |
| 5 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 grew | nsubj |
| 6 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 flower | det |
| 8 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 grew | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 beautiful | punct |
| 10 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 beautiful | advmod |
| 11 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 grew | conj |
| 12 | than | than | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 beautiful | obl |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 nightingale | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 nightingale | cc |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 her | case |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 nightingale | nmod:poss |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 nightingale | det |
| 20 | nightingale | nightingale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 grew | conj |
| 21 | sung | sing | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 nightingale | acl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 woes | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 woes | nmod:poss |
| 24 | woes | woe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 sung | obl |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 remained | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 remained | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 rose | det |
| 28 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 remained | nsubj |
| 29 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 grew | conj |
| 30 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 remained | xcomp |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 lay | punct |
| 32 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 35 dewdrop | advmod |
| 33 | even | even | ADV | _ | 35 dewdrop | advmod |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 dewdrop | det |
| 35 | dewdrop | dewdrop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 lay | obl |
| 36 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 remained | parataxis |
| 37 | like | like | ADP | _ | 39 tear | case |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 tear | det |
| 39 | tear | tear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 lay | obl |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 sympathy | case |
| 41 | sympathy | sympathy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 tear | nmod |
| 42 | on | on | ADP | _ | 44 leaves | case |
| 43 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 leaves | nmod:poss |
| 44 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 lay | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | the rose bush | a flower | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location flower=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | participle | bush's nightingale not said here | of merchant's woes | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | remain | past | the rose | silent property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | lay | present | a dewdrop | bush's leaves | like a tear of sympathy | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on leaf=Destination |
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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