Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Swan's Nest, sentence 6

On the coast of France there sounded a cry of fear, for the blood-stained swans that came from the North with fire under their wings; and the people prayed, "Heaven deliver us from the wild Northmen."

Who acts: stained swans, people, Heaven, fear · What happens: sound, stain, come, pray, deliver, cry · To what, where: cry, coast, North, us, wild · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (stained swans, people, Heaven, fear), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 coast	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 coast	det
3	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sounded	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 France	case
5	France	France	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 coast	nmod
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 sounded	advmod
7	sounded	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 cry	det
9	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sounded	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 fear	case
11	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cry	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 swans	punct
13	for	for	ADP	_	18 swans	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 swans	det
15	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stained	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 blood	punct
17	stained	stain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 swans	amod
18	swans	swan	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sounded	obl
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 came	nsubj
20	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 swans	acl:relcl
21	from	from	ADP	_	23 North	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 North	det
23	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 came	obl
24	with	with	ADP	_	25 fire	case
25	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 came	obl
26	under	under	ADP	_	28 wings	case
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 wings	nmod:poss
28	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 came	obl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 prayed	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 prayed	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 people	det
32	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 prayed	nsubj
33	prayed	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sounded	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 deliver	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	37 deliver	punct
36	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 deliver	nsubj
37	deliver	deliver	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 prayed	ccomp
38	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 deliver	obj
39	from	from	ADP	_	41 wild	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 wild	det
41	wild	wild	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 deliver	obl
42	Northmen	Northmen	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 wild	appos
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	37 deliver	punct
44	"	"	PUNCT	_	37 deliver	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sound	past		a cry of fear	the coast of France; there	for the stained swans	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cry=Theme
2	stain	participle					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
3	come	past	the stained swans		the North	with fire; under wings's wings	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from north=Initial_Location
4	pray	past	the people				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	deliver in a quote	infinitive	Heaven	us	the wild		vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent we=Theme from wild=Initial_Location
6	cry		fear				nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=agent

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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