Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Rose From Homer's Grave, sentence 8
I, a rose from the grave of Homer, am too lofty to bloom for a nightingale."
Who acts: I · What happens: be, bloom
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 (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 lofty | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 rose | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 rose | det |
| 4 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 I | appos |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 grave | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 grave | det |
| 7 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rose | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Homer | case |
| 9 | Homer | Homer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 grave | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 rose | punct |
| 11 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 lofty | cop |
| 12 | too | too | ADV | _ | 13 lofty | advmod |
| 13 | lofty | lofty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 bloom | mark |
| 15 | bloom | bloom | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 lofty | xcomp |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 nightingale | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 nightingale | det |
| 18 | nightingale | nightingale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bloom | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 lofty | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 lofty | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | lofty property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bloom | to-infinitive | I not said here | for a nightingale | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=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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