Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Swan's Nest, sentence 4
Another flock, with shining plumage and honest eyes, soared southward to Byzantium; the swans established themselves there close by the Emperor's throne, and spread their wings over him as shields to protect him.
Who acts: flock, swans · What happens: shine, soar, establish, spread, protect · To what, where: plumage, Byzantium, wings, 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 (flock, swans), 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 | Another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 flock | det |
| 2 | flock | flock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 soared | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 shining | punct |
| 4 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 5 shining | mark |
| 5 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 flock | acl |
| 6 | plumage | plumage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shining | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 eyes | cc |
| 8 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 eyes | amod |
| 9 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 plumage | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 flock | punct |
| 11 | soared | soar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | southward | southward | ADV | _ | 11 soared | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Byzantium | case |
| 14 | Byzantium | Byzantium | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 soared | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 established | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 swans | det |
| 17 | swans | swan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 established | nsubj |
| 18 | established | establish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 soared | conj |
| 19 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 established | obj |
| 20 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 established | advmod |
| 21 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 established | advmod |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 throne | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Emperor | det |
| 24 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 throne | nmod:poss |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 Emperor | case |
| 26 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 established | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 spread | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 spread | cc |
| 29 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 soared | conj |
| 30 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 wings | nmod:poss |
| 31 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 spread | obj |
| 32 | over | over | ADP | _ | 33 him | case |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 spread | obl |
| 34 | as | as | ADP | _ | 35 shields | case |
| 35 | shields | shield | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 spread | obl |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 protect | mark |
| 37 | protect | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 spread | advcl |
| 38 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 protect | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 soared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine | gerund | another flock not said here | plumage and honest eyes | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent plumage=Theme | ||||
| 2 | soar | past | another flock | Byzantium | southward property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to byzantium=Result | |||
| 3 | establish | past | the swans | plumage | there | by the Emperor's throne; close property | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient | ||
| 4 | spread | past | another flock not said here | plumage's wings | over swan; as shields | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent wing=Theme over he=Destination | |||
| 5 | protect | to-infinitive | another flock not said here | swan | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary |
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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