Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 103
The Bedouin had quitted his sunny country, and hastened by on his camel.
Who acts: Bedouin · What happens: quitt, hasten · To what, where: sunny country
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bedouin), 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 Bedouin | det |
| 2 | Bedouin | Bedouin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 quitted | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 quitted | aux |
| 4 | quitted | quitt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 country | nmod:poss |
| 6 | sunny | sunny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 country | amod |
| 7 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 quitted | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hastened | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 hastened | cc |
| 10 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 quitted | conj |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 camel | case |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 camel | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 camel | nmod:poss |
| 14 | camel | camel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hastened | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 quitted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quitt | past · perfect | the Bedouin | Bedouin's sunny country | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hasten | participle | the Bedouin not said here | by Bedouin's camel | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by camel=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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