Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor, sentence 19
The camels pass along under the palm trees; they are richly laden with indigo and other treasures of value, sent by the ruler of the land to him whose songs are the delight of the people, the fame of the country.
Who acts: camels, songs, delight · What happens: pass along, lade, send, be, treasure, sing · To what, where: palm trees, camels, delight, value
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (camels, songs, delight), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 camels | det |
| 2 | camels | camel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 pass | nsubj |
| 3 | pass | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | along | along | ADV | _ | 3 pass | advmod |
| 5 | under | under | ADP | _ | 8 trees | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 trees | det |
| 7 | palm | palm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 trees | compound |
| 8 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 pass | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 laden | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 laden | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 laden | aux:pass |
| 12 | richly | richly | ADV | _ | 13 laden | advmod |
| 13 | laden | lade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 pass | parataxis |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 indigo | case |
| 15 | indigo | indigo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 laden | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 treasures | cc |
| 17 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 treasures | amod |
| 18 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 indigo | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 value | case |
| 20 | value | value | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 treasures | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 sent | punct |
| 22 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 laden | conj |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 ruler | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 ruler | det |
| 25 | ruler | ruler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sent | obl:agent |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 land | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 land | det |
| 28 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 ruler | nmod |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 him | case |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 land | nmod |
| 31 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 32 songs | nmod:poss |
| 32 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 delight | nsubj |
| 33 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 delight | cop |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 delight | det |
| 35 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 land | parataxis |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 people | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 people | det |
| 38 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 delight | nmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 fame | punct |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 fame | det |
| 41 | fame | fame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 delight | conj |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 country | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 country | det |
| 44 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 fame | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pass | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass along | present | the camels | the palm trees | along property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme under tree=Location | |||
| 2 | lade | present · passive | camels = camel | with indigo and other treasures of value; richly property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | send | participle | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is a | present | the delight and the fame of the country's songs | the delight and the fame of the country | of the people | tree rules | |||
| 5 | treasure | value | nom treasure «possession transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | sing | the delight and the fame of the country | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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