Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bird of Popular Song, sentence 46

The wild swans come flying on whirring pinions, and sing of the noble and the great, that will still sprout in the hearts of men, down in the town which is resting beneath its snowy veil.

Who acts: wild swans, that, town · What happens: come, fly, sprout, rest · To what, where: sing, whirring pinions, hearts, snowy veil

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bird of Popular Song. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wild swans, that, town), 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	3 swans	det
2	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 swans	amod
3	swans	swan	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 come	nsubj
4	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 come	xcomp
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 pinions	case
7	whirring	whirring	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pinions	compound
8	pinions	pinion	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 flying	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sing	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sing	cc
11	sing	sing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 noble	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 noble	det
14	noble	noble	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sing	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 great	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 great	det
17	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 noble	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sprout	punct
19	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 sprout	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 sprout	aux
21	still	still	ADV	_	22 sprout	advmod
22	sprout	sprout	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 come	conj
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 hearts	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 hearts	det
25	hearts	heart	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 sprout	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 men	case
27	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 hearts	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 down	punct
29	down	down	ADV	_	22 sprout	advmod
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 town	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 town	det
32	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 down	obl
33	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 resting	nsubj
34	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 resting	aux
35	resting	rest	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 town	acl:relcl
36	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	39 veil	case
37	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 veil	nmod:poss
38	snowy	snowy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 veil	amod
39	veil	veil	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 resting	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	the wild swans	sing of the noble				tree rules
2	fly	gerund	the wild swans not said here		whirring pinions			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on pinion=Location
3	sprout	future	that		the hearts of men	still	down property	vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in heart=Location
4	rest	present · progressive	the town		town's snowy veil			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beneath veil=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: «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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