Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, sentence 93

We brothers," said the eldest, "fly about as wild swans, so long as the sun is in the sky; but as soon as it sinks behind the hills, we recover our human shape.

Who acts: We, brothers, sun, sky · What happens: brother, say, fly, be, sink, recover · To what, where: hills, human shape · 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 (We, brothers, sun, sky), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 brothers	nsubj
2	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 brothers	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 brothers	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 eldest	det
7	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 said	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fly	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 fly	punct
10	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
11	about	about	ADV	_	10 fly	advmod
12	as	as	ADP	_	14 swans	case
13	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 swans	amod
14	swans	swan	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 fly	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 long	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 long	advmod
17	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 fly	conj
18	as	as	ADP	_	24 sky	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sun	det
20	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sky	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 sky	cop
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 sky	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 sky	det
24	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 long	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 sinks	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 sinks	cc
27	as	as	ADV	_	28 soon	advmod
28	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	31 sinks	advmod
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 sinks	mark
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 sinks	nsubj
31	sinks	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	parataxis
32	behind	behind	ADP	_	34 hills	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 hills	det
34	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 sinks	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 recover	punct
36	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 recover	nsubj
37	recover	recover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 sinks	conj
38	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 shape	nmod:poss
39	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 shape	amod
40	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 recover	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	brother		We				tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	brothers				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	fly	present				as wild swans; about property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	present	the sun			as the sky	tree rules
5	sink	present	sky		the hills	soon property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	recover	present	we	our human shape			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Theme

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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