Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 29

The sun had reached the edge of the sea, when the swans darted down so swiftly, that Eliza's head trembled; she believed they were falling, but they again soared onward.

Who acts: edge, head, swans · What happens: reach, dart down, tremble, believe, fall, soar · To what, where: sun · 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 (edge, head, swans), 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 sun	det
2	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reached	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 reached	aux
4	reached	reach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 edge	det
6	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 darted	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 sea	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sea	det
9	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 edge	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 darted	punct
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 darted	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 swans	det
13	swans	swan	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 darted	nsubj
14	darted	dart	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 reached	parataxis
15	down	down	ADP	_	14 darted	compound:prt
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 swiftly	advmod
17	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	_	14 darted	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 trembled	punct
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 trembled	mark
20	Eliza	Eliza	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 head	nmod:poss
21	's	's	PART	_	20 Eliza	case
22	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 trembled	nsubj
23	trembled	tremble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 darted	conj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 believed	punct
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 believed	nsubj
26	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 reached	conj
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 falling	nsubj
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 falling	aux
29	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 believed	ccomp
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 soared	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 soared	cc
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 soared	nsubj
33	again	again	ADV	_	34 soared	advmod
34	soared	soar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 reached	conj
35	onward	onward	ADV	_	34 soared	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	reach	past · perfect · passive		the sun			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme
2	dart down	past	the edge of the sea			swiftly property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tremble	past	Eliza's head				vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	believe	past	head				vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	fall	past · progressive	swans = swan				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	soar	past	swans = swan		again	onward property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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