Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, sentence 88
As soon as the sun had disappeared under the water, the feathers of the swans fell off, and eleven beautiful princes, Eliza's brothers, stood near her.
Who acts: sun, feathers, eleven beautiful princes · What happens: disappear, fall off, stand · To what, where: water
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, feathers, eleven beautiful princes), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 fell | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 disappeared | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sun | det |
| 5 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 disappeared | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 disappeared | aux |
| 7 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 soon | advcl |
| 8 | under | under | ADP | _ | 10 water | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 water | det |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 disappeared | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 soon | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 feathers | det |
| 13 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 fell | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 swans | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 swans | det |
| 16 | swans | swan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 feathers | nmod |
| 17 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | off | off | ADP | _ | 17 fell | compound:prt |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 stood | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 stood | cc |
| 21 | eleven | eleven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 princes | nummod |
| 22 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 princes | amod |
| 23 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 stood | nsubj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 brothers | punct |
| 25 | Eliza | Eliza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 26 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 25 Eliza | case |
| 27 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 princes | appos |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 princes | punct |
| 29 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 fell | conj |
| 30 | near | near | ADP | _ | 31 her | case |
| 31 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 stood | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disappear | past · perfect | the sun | the water | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fall off | past | the feathers of the swans | soon property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | stand | past | eleven beautiful princes | near motion | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near she=Location |
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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