Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Swan's Nest, sentence 17
We have seen a swan beat with his wings upon the marble crag, so that it burst, and the forms of beauty imprisoned in the stone stepped out to the sunny day, and men in the lands round about lifted up their heads to behold these mighty forms.
Who acts: We, beat, forms · What happens: see, burst, imprison, step out, lift up, behold · To what, where: swan beat, beauty, stone, men, mighty forms
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, beat, forms), 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 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 beat | det |
| 5 | swan | swan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 beat | compound |
| 6 | beat | beat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seen | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 wings | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 wings | nmod:poss |
| 9 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 beat | nmod |
| 10 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 13 crag | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 crag | det |
| 12 | marble | marble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 crag | amod |
| 13 | crag | crag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seen | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 burst | punct |
| 15 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 18 burst | mark |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 so | fixed |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 burst | nsubj |
| 18 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seen | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 stepped | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 stepped | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 forms | det |
| 22 | forms | form | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 stepped | nsubj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 beauty | case |
| 24 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 forms | nmod |
| 25 | imprisoned | imprison | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 beauty | acl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 stone | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 stone | det |
| 28 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 imprisoned | obl |
| 29 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 burst | conj |
| 30 | out | out | ADP | _ | 29 stepped | compound:prt |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 day | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 day | det |
| 33 | sunny | sunny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 day | amod |
| 34 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 stepped | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 lifted | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 lifted | cc |
| 37 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 lifted | nsubj:pass |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 lands | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 lands | det |
| 40 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 men | nmod |
| 41 | round | round | ADV | _ | 43 lifted | advmod |
| 42 | about | about | ADV | _ | 43 lifted | advmod |
| 43 | lifted | lift | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 burst | conj |
| 44 | up | up | ADP | _ | 43 lifted | compound:prt |
| 45 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 heads | nmod:poss |
| 46 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 lifted | obj |
| 47 | to | to | PART | _ | 48 behold | mark |
| 48 | behold | behold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 43 lifted | advcl |
| 49 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 51 forms | det |
| 50 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 forms | amod |
| 51 | forms | form | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 behold | obj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present · perfect | We | a swan beat | with rustling's wings; upon the marble crag | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer beat=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | burst | past | beat | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | imprison | participle | beauty not said here | the stone | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in stone=Destination | ||||
| 4 | step out | past | the forms of beauty | day | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | lift up | participle · passive | men in the lands | about, round property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme head=Destination | ||||
| 6 | behold | to-infinitive | this mighty forms | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer form=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | form | beauty | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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