Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Rose From Homer's Grave, sentence 7
He who sung of Troy became earth, and from that earth I have sprung.
Who acts: storm, Troy, I · What happens: sing, become, spring · To what, where: earth
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 (storm, Troy, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sung | nsubj |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 sung | nsubj |
| 3 | sung | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 6 became | mark |
| 5 | Troy | Troy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 became | nsubj |
| 6 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sung | advcl |
| 7 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 became | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sprung | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sprung | cc |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 earth | case |
| 11 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 earth | det |
| 12 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sprung | obl |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 sprung | nsubj |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 sprung | aux |
| 15 | sprung | spring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 sung | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | past | storm | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | |||||
| 2 | become | past | Troy | earth | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | spring | present · perfect | I | that earth | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from earth=Trajectory |
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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