Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 38

In the early dawn the air became calm and still, and at sunrise the swans flew away from the rock with Eliza.

Who acts: air, swans · What happens: become, fly away · To what, where: rock

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 (air, 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 dawn	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dawn	det
3	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dawn	amod
4	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 became	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 air	det
6	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 became	nsubj
7	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 became	xcomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 still	cc
10	still	still	ADV	_	8 calm	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 flew	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 flew	cc
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 sunrise	case
14	sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 flew	obl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 swans	det
16	swans	swan	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 flew	nsubj
17	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 became	conj
18	away	away	ADV	_	17 flew	advmod
19	from	from	ADP	_	21 rock	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 rock	det
21	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 flew	obl
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 Eliza	case
23	Eliza	Eliza	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 rock	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	the air				dawn	calm property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	fly away	past	the swans			the rock with Eliza	sunrise	away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from rock=Trajectory

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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