Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Swan's Nest, sentence 8
The heathens on the Pomerian coast bent the knee, and the Danish swans came with the banner of the Cross and with the drawn sword.
Who acts: heathens, Danish swans · What happens: bend, come, draw · To what, where: knee
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 (heathens, Danish 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 heathens | det |
| 2 | heathens | heathen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 bent | nsubj |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 coast | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 coast | det |
| 5 | Pomerian | pomerian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 coast | amod |
| 6 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 heathens | nmod |
| 7 | bent | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 knee | det |
| 9 | knee | knee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bent | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 came | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 came | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 swans | det |
| 13 | Danish | danish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 swans | amod |
| 14 | swans | swan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 came | nsubj |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 bent | conj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 banner | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 banner | det |
| 18 | banner | banner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 came | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Cross | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Cross | det |
| 21 | Cross | Cross | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 banner | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 sword | cc |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 sword | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 sword | det |
| 25 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 sword | amod |
| 26 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Cross | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 bent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bend | past | the heathens on the Pomerian coast | the knee | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent knee=Material | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the Danish swans | with the banner of the Cross and the drawn sword | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | draw | participle | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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