Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Rose From Homer's Grave, sentence 6
At last she bowed her head over a heap of stones, and said, "Here rests the greatest singer in the world; over his tomb will I spread my fragrance, and on it I will let my leaves fall when the storm scatters them.
Who acts: last, I, leaves, storm · What happens: bow, say, rest, spread, let, fall · To what, where: head, heap, greatest singer, world, fragrance, tomb · 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 (last, I, leaves, storm), 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 | At | at | SCONJ | _ | 4 bowed | mark |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bowed | nsubj |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bowed | nsubj |
| 4 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | advcl |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 head | nmod:poss |
| 6 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bowed | obj |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 heap | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 heap | det |
| 9 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bowed | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 stones | case |
| 11 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 heap | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 said | cc |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 rests | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Here | punct |
| 17 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 rests | advmod |
| 18 | rests | rest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | ccomp |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 singer | det |
| 20 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 singer | amod |
| 21 | singer | singer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rests | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 world | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 world | det |
| 24 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 singer | nmod |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 spread | punct |
| 26 | over | over | ADP | _ | 28 tomb | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 tomb | nmod:poss |
| 28 | tomb | tomb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 spread | obl |
| 29 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 spread | aux |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 spread | nsubj |
| 31 | spread | spread | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 32 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 fragrance | nmod:poss |
| 33 | fragrance | fragrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 spread | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 let | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 let | cc |
| 36 | on | on | ADP | _ | 37 it | case |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 let | obl |
| 38 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 let | nsubj |
| 39 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 let | aux |
| 40 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 spread | parataxis |
| 41 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 leaves | nmod:poss |
| 42 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 fall | nsubj |
| 43 | fall | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 let | parataxis |
| 44 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 47 scatters | mark |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 storm | det |
| 46 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 scatters | nsubj |
| 47 | scatters | scatter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 fall | advcl |
| 48 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 scatters | obj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bow | past | last | rose's head | a heap of stones | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Topic | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | rest in a quote | present | the greatest singer | the world; here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent singer=Theme in world=Location | ||||
| 4 | spread in a quote | future | I | my fragrance | merchant's tomb | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent fragrance=Theme over tomb=Destination | |||
| 5 | let in a quote | future | I | fragrance | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent on it=Asset | ||||
| 6 | fall in a quote | present | my leaves | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | scatter in a quote | present | the storm | leaves = leaf | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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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