Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, sentence 79
On the foam-covered sea-weeds, lay eleven white swan feathers, which she gathered up and placed together.
Who acts: heart · What happens: cover, lay, gather up, place · To what, where: eleven white swan feathers, covered sea weeds
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 (heart), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 8 weeds | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 weeds | det |
| 3 | foam | foam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 covered | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 foam | punct |
| 5 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 weeds | amod |
| 6 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 weeds | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 sea | punct |
| 8 | weeds | weed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 lay | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 weeds | punct |
| 10 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | eleven | eleven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 feathers | nummod |
| 12 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 feathers | amod |
| 13 | swan | swan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 feathers | compound |
| 14 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 lay | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 gathered | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 gathered | obj |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 gathered | nsubj |
| 18 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 feathers | acl:relcl |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 gathered | compound:prt |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 placed | cc |
| 21 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 gathered | conj |
| 22 | together | together | ADV | _ | 21 placed | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | participle | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | lay | present | eleven white swan feathers | the covered sea weeds | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent feather=Theme on weed=Destination | ||||
| 3 | gather up | past | heart | eleven white swan feathers | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme | ||||
| 4 | place | participle | heart not said here | together property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: 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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