Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 117

And she flew past old castles of by-gone days of chivalry, where the red walls and the embattled gables were mirrored in the canal, where the swans were swimming, and peered up into the old cool avenues.

Who acts: girl, swans · What happens: fly, embattl, mirror, swim, peer up · To what, where: old castles, red walls, canal

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Elderbush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 flew	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 flew	nsubj
3	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	past	past	ADP	_	6 castles	case
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 castles	amod
6	castles	castle	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 flew	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	11 days	case
8	by	by	ADP	_	11 days	case
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 by	punct
10	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 days	amod
11	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 castles	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 chivalry	case
13	chivalry	chivalry	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 days	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 mirrored	punct
15	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	24 mirrored	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 walls	det
17	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 walls	amod
18	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 mirrored	nsubj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 gables	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 gables	det
21	embattled	embattl	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 gables	amod
22	gables	gable	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 walls	conj
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 mirrored	aux:pass
24	mirrored	mirror	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 chivalry	acl:relcl
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 canal	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 canal	det
27	canal	canal	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 mirrored	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 swimming	punct
29	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	33 swimming	advmod
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 swans	det
31	swans	swan	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 swimming	nsubj
32	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 swimming	aux
33	swimming	swim	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 canal	parataxis
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 peered	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 peered	cc
36	peered	peer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 flew	conj
37	up	up	ADP	_	36 peered	compound:prt
38	into	into	ADP	_	42 avenues	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 avenues	det
40	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 avenues	amod
41	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 avenues	amod
42	avenues	avenue	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 peered	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fly	past	girl		old castles of gone days of chivalry		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme past castle=Trajectory
2	embattl	participle					tree rules
3	mirror	past · passive		the red walls and the embattled gables	the canal		tree rules
4	swim	past · progressive	the swans				vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	peer up	past	girl not said here			into the old cool avenues	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into avenue=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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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