Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 35

Yet, when a clear frosty day came, and Jurgen saw the swans flying in numbers from the sea towards the land, across to Norre-Vosborg, it seemed to him that people could breathe more freely here; the summer also in this part of the world was splendid.

Who acts: clear frosty day, Jurgen, swans, it, people, summer · What happens: come, see, fly, seem, breathe, be · To what, where: swans, Norre Vosborg, numbers, Jurgen

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clear frosty day, Jurgen, swans, it), 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	Yet	yet	CCONJ	_	8 came	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 came	punct
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 came	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 day	det
5	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 day	amod
6	frosty	frosty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 day	amod
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 saw	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 saw	cc
11	Jurgen	Jurgen	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 saw	nsubj
12	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 came	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 swans	det
14	swans	swan	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 saw	obj
15	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 swans	acl
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 numbers	case
17	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 flying	obl
18	from	from	ADP	_	20 sea	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sea	det
20	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 flying	obl
21	towards	towards	ADP	_	23 land	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 land	det
23	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 flying	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 Vosborg	punct
25	across	across	ADP	_	29 Vosborg	case
26	to	to	ADP	_	29 Vosborg	case
27	Norre	Norre	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Vosborg	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 Norre	punct
29	Vosborg	Vosborg	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 saw	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 seemed	punct
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 seemed	nsubj
32	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 came	parataxis
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 him	case
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 seemed	obl
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 breathe	mark
36	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 breathe	nsubj
37	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 breathe	aux
38	breathe	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 seemed	xcomp
39	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	40 freely	advmod
40	freely	freely	ADV	_	41 here	advmod
41	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	38 breathe	advmod
42	;	;	PUNCT	_	53 splendid	punct
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 summer	det
44	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 splendid	nsubj
45	also	also	ADV	_	48 part	advmod
46	in	in	ADP	_	48 part	case
47	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	48 part	det
48	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 summer	conj
49	of	of	ADP	_	51 world	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 world	det
51	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 part	nmod
52	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 splendid	cop
53	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 came	conj
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	a clear frosty day					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	past	Jurgen	the swans		Norre Vosborg		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer swan=Stimulus
3	fly	gerund	the swans not said here			numbers	from the sea; towards the land	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent in number=Trajectory from sea=Initial_Location towards land=Destination
4	seem	past	it		Jurgen			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
5	breathe	could	people			here		vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	past	the summer and this part of the world				splendid property	tree rules

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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