Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 18

She smiled her thanks to him; she knew it was the same who had hovered over her to shade her with his wings.

Who acts: Eliza, thanks · What happens: smile, know, be, hover, shade · To what, where: thanks, youngest, Eliza · Speech: someone speaks here

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, thanks), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 smiled	nsubj
2	smiled	smile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 thanks	nmod:poss
4	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 smiled	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 smiled	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 knew	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 knew	nsubj
9	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 smiled	parataxis
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 same	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 same	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 same	det
13	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 knew	ccomp
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 hovered	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 hovered	aux
16	hovered	hover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 same	acl:relcl
17	over	over	ADP	_	18 her	case
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 hovered	obl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 shade	mark
20	shade	shade	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 hovered	advcl
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 shade	obj
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 wings	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 wings	nmod:poss
24	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 shade	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 smiled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	smile	past	Eliza	Eliza's thanks	youngest = young		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent thanks=Topic to he=Recipient
2	know	past	Eliza				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past	thanks			same property	tree rules
4	hover	past · perfect				over Eliza	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over she=Location
5	shade	to-infinitive			Eliza	with youngest's wings	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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