Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 30

Just as the sun was setting, she heard a rustling, and saw six white Swans come flying in at the window.

Who acts: sun, six white Swans · What happens: set, hear, see, come, fly in · To what, where: rustling, window · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Six Swans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, six white Swans), 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	Just	just	ADV	_	9 heard	advmod
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 setting	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sun	det
4	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 setting	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 setting	aux
6	setting	set	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 heard	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 setting	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 heard	nsubj
9	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 rustling	det
11	rustling	rustling	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 heard	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 saw	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 saw	cc
14	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 heard	conj
15	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 Swans	nummod
16	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Swans	amod
17	Swans	swan	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 come	nsubj
18	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 saw	ccomp
19	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 come	xcomp
20	in	in	ADV	_	19 flying	advmod
21	at	at	ADP	_	23 window	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 window	det
23	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 flying	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	set	past · progressive	the sun			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	hear	past	sun	a rustling		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer rustling=Stimulus
3	see	past	sun not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	come	present	six white Swans			tree rules
5	fly in	gerund	six white Swans not said here		the window	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at window=Location

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: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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