Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, sentence 1

Far away in the land to which the swallows fly when it is winter, dwelt a king who had eleven sons, and one daughter, named Eliza.

Who acts: swallows, land, king · What happens: fly, be, dwell, have, name · To what, where: land, winter, king, eleven sons, one daughter

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (swallows, land, king), 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	Far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 away	advmod
2	away	away	ADV	_	10 fly	advmod
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 land	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 land	det
5	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fly	obl
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 which	case
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 fly	obl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 swallows	det
9	swallows	swallow	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 fly	nsubj
10	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 winter	advmod
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 winter	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 winter	cop
14	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fly	obl:unmarked
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 dwelt	punct
16	dwelt	dwell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 fly	conj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 king	det
18	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 dwelt	obj
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 had	nsubj
20	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 king	acl:relcl
21	eleven	eleven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 sons	nummod
22	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 had	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 named	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 named	cc
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 daughter	nummod
26	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 named	nsubj:pass
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 named	punct
28	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 dwelt	parataxis
29	Eliza	Eliza	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 named	xcomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 fly	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fly	present	the swallows		the land	away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in land=Location
2	is a	present	land	winter			tree rules
3	dwell	past	the swallows not said here	a king			vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme king=Location
4	have	past	a king	eleven sons			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
5	name	participle · passive		one daughter			vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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