Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, sentence 85

When the sun was about to set, Eliza saw eleven white swans with golden crowns on their heads, flying towards the land, one behind the other, like a long white ribbon.

Who acts: sun, Eliza · What happens: be, set, see, fly · To what, where: eleven white swans, land · 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 (sun, Eliza), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 about	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sun	det
3	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 about	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 about	cop
5	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 set	mark
7	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 about	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 saw	punct
9	Eliza	Eliza	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 saw	nsubj
10	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 about	conj
11	eleven	eleven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 swans	nummod
12	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 swans	amod
13	swans	swan	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 saw	obj
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 crowns	case
15	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 crowns	amod
16	crowns	crown	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 swans	nmod
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 heads	case
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 heads	nmod:poss
19	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 crowns	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 flying	punct
21	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 one	csubj
22	towards	towards	ADP	_	24 land	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 land	det
24	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 flying	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 one	punct
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 saw	obj
27	behind	behind	ADP	_	29 other	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 other	det
29	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 one	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 ribbon	punct
31	like	like	ADP	_	35 ribbon	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 ribbon	det
33	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 ribbon	amod
34	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 ribbon	amod
35	ribbon	ribbon	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 saw	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 about	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the sun			about property	tree rules
2	set	to-infinitive	the sun not said here				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	see	past	Eliza	eleven white swans		with golden crowns on crowns's heads; like a long white ribbon	tree rules
4	fly	gerund			the land		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards land=Destination

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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