Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Swan's Nest, sentence 14
We have seen swan after swan soar by in glorious flight.
Who acts: We · What happens: see · To what, where: swan
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: who acts (We), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 seen | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 seen | aux |
| 3 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | swan | swan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seen | obj |
| 5 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 soar | case |
| 6 | swan | swan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 soar | compound |
| 7 | soar | soar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seen | obl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 flight | case |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 flight | case |
| 10 | glorious | glorious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 flight | amod |
| 11 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seen | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present · perfect | We | swan | after swan soar | by glorious flight | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer swan=Stimulus |
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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