Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, sentence 87
The swans alighted quite close to her and flapped their great white wings.
Who acts: swans · What happens: alight, flap · To what, where: great white wings
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 (swans), 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 swans | det |
| 2 | swans | swan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 flapped | nsubj |
| 3 | alighted | alight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 flapped | parataxis |
| 4 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 5 close | advmod |
| 5 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 alighted | xcomp |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 her | case |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 close | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 flapped | cc |
| 9 | flapped | flap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 wings | nmod:poss |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 wings | amod |
| 12 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 wings | amod |
| 13 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 flapped | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 flapped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | alight | participle | close property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | flap | past | the swans | swans's great white wings | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=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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