Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, sentence 15

They hovered over the roof, twisted their long necks and flapped their wings, but no one heard them or saw them, so they were at last obliged to fly away, high up in the clouds; and over the wide world they flew till they came to a thick, dark wood, which stretched far away to the seashore.

Who acts: birds, one, thick dark wood · What happens: hover, twist, flap, hear, see, oblige · To what, where: roof, long necks, wings, birds, wide world, thick dark wood

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 (birds, one, thick dark wood), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hovered	nsubj
2	hovered	hover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	over	over	ADP	_	5 roof	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 roof	det
5	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hovered	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 twisted	punct
7	twisted	twist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 hovered	conj
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 necks	nmod:poss
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 necks	amod
10	necks	neck	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 twisted	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 flapped	cc
12	flapped	flap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 hovered	conj
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 wings	nmod:poss
14	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 flapped	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 heard	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 heard	cc
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 one	det
18	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 heard	nsubj
19	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 hovered	parataxis
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 heard	obj
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 saw	cc
22	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 heard	conj
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 saw	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 obliged	punct
25	so	so	ADV	_	30 obliged	advmod
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 obliged	nsubj:pass
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 obliged	aux:pass
28	at	at	SCONJ	_	30 obliged	mark
29	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 obliged	amod
30	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 hovered	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 fly	mark
32	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 obliged	xcomp
33	away	away	ADV	_	32 fly	advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 high	punct
35	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 fly	conj
36	up	up	ADV	_	35 high	advmod
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 clouds	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 clouds	det
39	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 high	obl
40	;	;	PUNCT	_	47 flew	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 flew	cc
42	over	over	ADP	_	45 world	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 world	det
44	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 world	amod
45	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 flew	obl
46	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 flew	nsubj
47	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 hovered	conj
48	till	till	SCONJ	_	50 came	mark
49	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 came	nsubj
50	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 flew	advcl
51	to	to	ADP	_	56 wood	case
52	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	56 wood	det
53	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 wood	amod
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 thick	punct
55	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 wood	amod
56	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 came	obl
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 stretched	punct
58	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	59 stretched	nsubj
59	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 wood	acl:relcl
60	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	61 away	advmod
61	away	away	ADV	_	59 stretched	advmod
62	to	to	ADP	_	64 seashore	case
63	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	64 seashore	det
64	seashore	seashore	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 away	obl
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 hovered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hover	past	birds = bird		the roof		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over roof=Location
2	twist	past	birds = bird not said here	birds's long necks			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent neck=Theme
3	flap	past	birds = bird not said here	birds's wings			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient
4	hear	past	no one	birds = bird			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
5	see	past	no one not said here	birds = bird			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
6	oblige	past · passive		birds = bird			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
7	fly away	to-infinitive				away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	fly	past	birds = bird		the wide world		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over world=Location
9	come	past	birds = bird		a thick dark wood		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wood=Initial_Location
10	stretch	past	a thick dark wood			away property	vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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