Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, sentence 47

The birds sang, and the people came out of the book, and spoke to Eliza and her brothers; but, as the leaves turned over, they darted back again to their places, that all might be in order.

Who acts: birds, people, leaves, all · What happens: sing, come out, speak, turn over, dart, be · To what, where: book, Eliza, places, order · Speech: someone speaks here

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, people, leaves, all), 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 birds	det
2	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sang	nsubj
3	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 came	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 came	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 people	det
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sang	conj
9	out	out	ADP	_	12 book	case
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 book	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 book	det
12	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 spoke	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 spoke	cc
15	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 came	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 Eliza	case
17	Eliza	Eliza	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 spoke	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 brothers	cc
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 brothers	nmod:poss
20	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 Eliza	conj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 darted	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 darted	cc
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 but	punct
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 turned	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 leaves	det
26	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 turned	nsubj
27	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 darted	advcl
28	over	over	ADP	_	27 turned	compound:prt
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 turned	punct
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 darted	nsubj
31	darted	dart	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sang	conj
32	back	back	ADV	_	33 again	advmod
33	again	again	ADV	_	31 darted	advmod
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 places	case
35	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 places	nmod:poss
36	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 darted	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 order	punct
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	43 order	mark
39	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	43 order	nsubj
40	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 order	aux
41	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	43 order	cop
42	in	in	ADP	_	43 order	case
43	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 darted	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	the birds					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
2	come out	past	the people	the book				vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient book=Result
3	speak speech: other	past	the people not said here		Eliza and book's brothers			vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to eliza=Co-Agent
4	turn over	past	the leaves					vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
5	dart	past	people			people's places	again	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to place=Destination
6	is	might	all			order		tree rules

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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