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title: Not far from Smyrna, where the merchant drives his loaded camels, pr… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Not far from Smyrna, where the merchant drives his loaded camels, proudly arching their long necks as they journey beneath the lofty pines over holy ground, I saw a hedge of roses. Who acts: merchant, I. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Rose From Homer's Gr
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Rose From Homer's Grave, sentence 3

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Not far from Smyrna, where the merchant drives his loaded camels, proudly arching their long necks as they journey beneath the lofty pines over holy ground, I saw a hedge of roses.

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**Who acts:** merchant, I · **What happens:** drive, load, arch, see · **To what, where:** loaded camels, long necks, hedge

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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 (merchant, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:156:3
# text = Not far from Smyrna, where the merchant drives his loaded camels, proudly arching their long necks as they journey beneath the lofty pines over holy ground, I saw a hedge of roses.
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	31	advmod	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Smyrna	Smyrna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	9	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	drives	drive	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	loaded	load	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
12	camels	camel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	proudly	proudly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	arching	arch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	necks	neck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
22	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	lofty	lofty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	pines	pine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
26	over	over	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
30	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	hedge	hedge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	roses	rose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	31	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drive** | present | the merchant | merchant's loaded camels |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme camel=Trajectory |
| 2 | **load** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **arch** | gerund | the merchant *not said here* | camels's long necks |  |  |  | as journey; beneath the lofty pines over holy ground; proudly *property* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neck=Patient |
| 4 | **see** | past | I | a hedge of roses |  |  |  | far *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hedge=Stimulus |

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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.

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**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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