Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Swan's Nest, sentence 2
In olden times a flock of swans flew over the Alps to the green plains around Milan, where it was delightful to dwell.
Who acts: flock, it · What happens: fly, be, dwell · To what, where: Alps
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 (flock, 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 times | case |
| 2 | olden | olden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 times | amod |
| 3 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 flew | obl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 flock | det |
| 5 | flock | flock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flew | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 swans | case |
| 7 | swans | swan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 flock | nmod |
| 8 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | over | over | ADP | _ | 11 Alps | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Alps | det |
| 11 | Alps | Alp | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 flew | obl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 plains | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 plains | det |
| 14 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 plains | amod |
| 15 | plains | plain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 flew | obl |
| 16 | around | around | ADP | _ | 17 Milan | case |
| 17 | Milan | Milan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 plains | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 delightful | punct |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 delightful | advmod |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 delightful | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 delightful | cop |
| 22 | delightful | delightful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Milan | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 dwell | mark |
| 24 | dwell | dwell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 delightful | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | a flock of swans | the Alps | time | to the green plains around Milan | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over alp=Location | ||
| 2 | is | past | it | delightful property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | dwell | to-infinitive | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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