Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Swan's Nest, sentence 18

We have seen a third swan spinning the thread of thought that is fastened from country to country round the world, so that the word may fly with lightning speed from land to land.

Who acts: We, word · What happens: see, spin, fasten, fly · To what, where: third swan, thread, thought, land

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, word), 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 swan	det
5	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 swan	amod
6	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seen	obj
7	spinning	spin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 seen	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 thread	det
9	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spinning	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 thought	case
11	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 thread	nmod
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 fastened	nsubj:pass
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 fastened	aux:pass
14	fastened	fasten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 thought	acl:relcl
15	from	from	ADP	_	16 country	case
16	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fastened	obl
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 country	case
18	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fastened	obl
19	round	round	ADP	_	21 world	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 world	det
21	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fastened	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 fly	punct
23	so	so	ADV	_	28 fly	advmod
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 fly	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 word	det
26	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 fly	nsubj
27	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 fly	aux
28	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 seen	parataxis
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 speed	case
30	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 speed	compound
31	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 fly	obl
32	from	from	ADP	_	33 land	case
33	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 fly	obl
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 land	case
35	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 fly	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 seen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	present · perfect	We	a third swan			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer swan=Stimulus
2	spin	gerund	We not said here	the thread of thought			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent thread=Theme
3	fasten	present · passive		thought		to country; round the world; to country	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to country=Co-Patient
4	fly	may	the word		land	with lightning speed; to land	vn drive-11.5-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent from land=Initial_Location to land=Destination

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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