Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 14

The sunbeams fell on her face, therefore one of the swans soared over her head, so that his broad wings might shade her.

Who acts: sunbeams, swans, broad wings · What happens: fall, soar, shade · To what, where: one, face, head, Eliza

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 (sunbeams, swans, broad wings), 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 sunbeams	det
2	sunbeams	sunbeam	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fell	nsubj
3	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 face	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 face	nmod:poss
6	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fell	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 one	punct
8	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	9 one	advmod
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 fell	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 swans	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 swans	det
12	swans	swan	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 soared	nsubj
13	soared	soar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 one	acl:relcl
14	over	over	ADP	_	16 head	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 head	nmod:poss
16	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 soared	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 shade	punct
18	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	24 shade	mark
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 so	fixed
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 wings	nmod:poss
21	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 wings	amod
22	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 shade	nsubj
23	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 shade	aux
24	shade	shade	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 fell	conj
25	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 shade	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	fall	past	the sunbeams	one		Eliza's face	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on face=Location
2	soar	past	the swans			Eliza's head	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme over head=Trajectory
3	shade	might	sun's broad wings		Eliza		vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary

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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