Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Swan's Nest, sentence 7

On the fresh sward of England stood the Danish swan by the open seashore, with the crown of three kingdoms on his head; and he stretched out his golden sceptre over the land.

Who acts: swan · What happens: stand, stretch out, crown · To what, where: Danish swan, fresh sward, golden sceptre, land, three kingdoms

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 (swan), 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	_	4 sward	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sward	det
3	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sward	amod
4	sward	sward	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stood	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 England	case
6	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sward	nmod
7	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 swan	det
9	Danish	danish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 swan	amod
10	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stood	obj
11	by	by	ADP	_	14 seashore	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 seashore	det
13	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 seashore	amod
14	seashore	seashore	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stood	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 crown	punct
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 crown	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 crown	det
18	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stood	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 kingdoms	case
20	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 kingdoms	nummod
21	kingdoms	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 crown	nmod
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 head	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 head	nmod:poss
24	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 kingdoms	nmod
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 stretched	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 stretched	cc
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 stretched	nsubj
28	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 stood	conj
29	out	out	ADP	_	28 stretched	compound:prt
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 sceptre	nmod:poss
31	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 sceptre	amod
32	sceptre	sceptre	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 stretched	obj
33	over	over	ADP	_	35 land	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 land	det
35	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 stretched	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past		the Danish swan	the fresh sward of England	by the open seashore; with the crown of three kingdoms on swan's head	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent swan=Theme on sward=Destination
2	stretch out	past	swan	swan's golden sceptre	the land		vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sceptre=Patient
3	crown			three kingdoms on swan's head			nom crown «communication transitive»: of=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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