Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Swan's Nest, sentence 20

And when the mighty birds come soaring through the air to destroy it, even the callow young stand round in a circle on the margin of the nest, and though their breasts may be struck so that their blood flows, they bear it, and strike with their wings and their claws.

Who acts: mighty birds, blood, breasts · What happens: come, soar, destroy, strike, flow, bear · To what, where: callow young stand, air, breasts, blood

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 (mighty birds, blood, breasts), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 come	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 come	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 birds	det
4	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 birds	amod
5	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 come	nsubj
6	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	soaring	soar	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 come	xcomp
8	through	through	ADP	_	10 air	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 air	det
10	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 soaring	obl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 destroy	mark
12	destroy	destroy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 soaring	advcl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 destroy	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 stand	punct
15	even	even	ADV	_	19 stand	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 stand	det
17	callow	callow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 stand	amod
18	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 stand	amod
19	stand	stand	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 come	obl
20	round	round	ADV	_	19 stand	advmod
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 circle	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 circle	det
23	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 stand	nmod
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 margin	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 margin	det
26	margin	margin	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 circle	nmod
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 nest	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 nest	det
29	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 margin	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 struck	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 struck	cc
32	though	though	SCONJ	_	37 struck	mark
33	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 breasts	nmod:poss
34	breasts	breast	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 struck	nsubj:pass
35	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 struck	aux
36	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 struck	aux:pass
37	struck	strike	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 come	conj
38	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	42 flows	mark
39	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 so	fixed
40	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 blood	nmod:poss
41	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 flows	nsubj
42	flows	flow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 struck	advcl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 bear	punct
44	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 bear	nsubj
45	bear	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 struck	parataxis
46	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 bear	obj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 strike	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 strike	cc
49	strike	strike	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 bear	conj
50	with	with	ADP	_	52 wings	case
51	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 wings	nmod:poss
52	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 strike	nmod
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 claws	cc
54	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 claws	nmod:poss
55	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 wings	conj
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	come	present	the mighty birds	the callow young stand in a circle on the margin of the nest		tree rules
2	soar	gerund	the mighty birds not said here		the air	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme through air=Trajectory
3	destroy	to-infinitive	the mighty birds not said here	air		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	strike	may · passive		birds's breasts		vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	flow	present	birds's blood			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	bear	present	breasts = breast	blood		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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