Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, sentence 101

This is our fatherland, to which we are drawn by loving ties; and here we have found you, our dear little sister.

Who acts: This, loving ties, we · What happens: be, draw, find · To what, where: fatherland, we, you

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 (This, loving ties, we), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 fatherland	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fatherland	cop
3	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 fatherland	nmod:poss
4	fatherland	fatherland	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 drawn	punct
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 which	case
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 drawn	obl
8	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 drawn	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 drawn	aux:pass
10	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 fatherland	parataxis
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 ties	case
12	loving	loving	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 ties	amod
13	ties	tie	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 drawn	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 found	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 found	cc
16	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 found	advmod
17	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 found	nsubj
18	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 found	aux
19	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 drawn	conj
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 found	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 sister	punct
22	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 sister	nmod:poss
23	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 sister	amod
24	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 sister	amod
25	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 found	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fatherland	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	This	our fatherland			tree rules
2	draw	present · passive	loving ties	we	our fatherland		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme to which=Destination
3	find	present · perfect	we	you	here	our dear little sister obl	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Topic

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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