Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 13

Eliza laid herself down on the net, and when the sun rose, and her brothers again became wild swans, they took up the net with their beaks, and flew up to the clouds with their dear sister, who still slept.

Who acts: Eliza, sun, brothers, dear sister · What happens: lay down, rise, become, take up, fly up, sleep · To what, where: Eliza, net, wild swans

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eliza, sun, brothers, dear sister), 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	Eliza	Eliza	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 laid	nsubj
2	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 laid	obj
4	down	down	ADP	_	2 laid	compound:prt
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 net	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 net	det
7	net	net	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 laid	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 rose	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 rose	cc
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 rose	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sun	det
12	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rose	nsubj
13	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 laid	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 became	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 became	cc
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 brothers	nmod:poss
17	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 became	nsubj
18	again	again	ADV	_	19 became	advmod
19	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 rose	conj
20	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 swans	amod
21	swans	swan	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 became	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 took	punct
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 took	nsubj
24	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 became	conj
25	up	up	ADP	_	24 took	compound:prt
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 net	det
27	net	net	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 took	obj
28	with	with	ADP	_	30 beaks	case
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 beaks	nmod:poss
30	beaks	beak	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 net	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 flew	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 flew	cc
33	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 took	conj
34	up	up	ADP	_	33 flew	compound:prt
35	to	to	ADP	_	37 clouds	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 clouds	det
37	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 flew	obl
38	with	with	ADP	_	41 sister	case
39	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 sister	nmod:poss
40	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 sister	amod
41	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 flew	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 slept	punct
43	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 slept	nsubj
44	still	still	ADV	_	45 slept	advmod
45	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 sister	acl:relcl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay down	past	Eliza	Eliza	the net			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent herself=Theme on net=Destination
2	rise	past	the sun					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	become	past	Eliza's brothers	wild swans		again		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	take up	past	brothers = brother	the net			with brothers's beaks	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent net=Theme
5	fly up	past	brothers = brother not said here				to the clouds result; with brothers's dear sister	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to cloud=Result
6	sleep	past	brothers's dear sister			still		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: 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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