Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 17

By her side lay a branch full of beautiful ripe berries, and a bundle of sweet roots; the youngest of her brothers had gathered them for her, and placed them by her side.

What happens: lie, gather, place · To what, where: branch, youngest, brothers

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: 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	By	by	ADP	_	3 side	case
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 side	nmod:poss
3	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lay	obl
4	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 branch	det
6	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lay	obj
7	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 branch	amod
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 berries	case
9	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 berries	amod
10	ripe	ripe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 berries	amod
11	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 full	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 bundle	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 bundle	cc
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 bundle	det
15	bundle	bundle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lay	parataxis
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 roots	case
17	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 roots	amod
18	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 bundle	nmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 gathered	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 youngest	det
21	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	26 gathered	nsubj:pass
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 brothers	case
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 brothers	nmod:poss
24	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 youngest	nmod
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 gathered	aux
26	gathered	gather	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 lay	conj
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 gathered	obj
28	for	for	ADP	_	29 her	case
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 gathered	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 placed	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 placed	cc
32	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lay	conj
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 placed	obj
34	by	by	ADP	_	36 side	case
35	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 side	nmod:poss
36	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 placed	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lie	past	a branch	by Eliza's side	vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location branch=Theme
2	gather	past · perfect · passive	the youngest of Eliza's brothers	for Eliza	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary they=Theme
3	place	past	brothers = brother	by Eliza's side	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme by side=Destination

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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