Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Swan's Nest, sentence 1
Between the Baltic and the North Sea there lies an old swan's nest, wherein swans are born and have been born that shall never die.
What happens: lie, bear, not die · To what, where: nest, swans
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Swan's Nest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Between | between | ADP | _ | 3 Baltic | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Baltic | det |
| 3 | Baltic | Baltic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 lies | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Sea | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Sea | det |
| 6 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Sea | compound |
| 7 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Baltic | conj |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 lies | expl |
| 9 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 swan | det |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 swan | amod |
| 12 | swan | swan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 nest | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 swan | case |
| 14 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lies | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 born | punct |
| 16 | wherein | wherein | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 born | advmod |
| 17 | swans | swan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 born | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 born | aux:pass |
| 19 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 nest | acl:relcl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 born | cc |
| 21 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 born | aux |
| 22 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 born | aux:pass |
| 23 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 born | conj |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 die | mark |
| 25 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 die | aux |
| 26 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 27 die | advmod |
| 27 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 born | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 lies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | present | a old swan's nest | there | between the Baltic and the North Sea | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location nest=Theme | |||
| 2 | bear | present · passive | swans | wherein property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | bear | present · perfect · passive | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S» | ||||||
| 4 | not die | shall | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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