Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 4

Her brothers were again changed to swans, and they flew in circles wider and wider, till they were far away; but one of them, the youngest swan, remained behind, and laid his head in his sister's lap, while she stroked his wings; and they remained together the whole day.

Who acts: brothers, Eliza, wings · What happens: change, fly, be, remain, lay, stroke · To what, where: brothers, circles, youngest swan, head, lap, wings

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 (brothers, Eliza, 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 brothers	nmod:poss
2	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 changed	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 changed	aux:pass
4	again	again	ADV	_	5 changed	advmod
5	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 swans	case
7	swans	swan	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 changed	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 flew	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 flew	cc
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 flew	nsubj
11	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 changed	parataxis
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 circles	case
13	circles	circle	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 flew	obl
14	wider	wide	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 flew	xcomp
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 wider	cc
16	wider	wide	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 wider	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 away	punct
18	till	till	SCONJ	_	22 away	mark
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 away	nsubj
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 away	cop
21	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 away	advmod
22	away	away	ADV	_	11 flew	conj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 one	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 one	cc
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 changed	parataxis
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 them	case
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 one	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 swan	punct
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 swan	det
30	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	31 swan	amod
31	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 one	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 remained	punct
33	remained	remain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 swan	acl
34	behind	behind	ADV	_	33 remained	advmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 laid	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 laid	cc
37	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 one	parataxis
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 head	nmod:poss
39	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 laid	obj
40	in	in	ADP	_	44 lap	case
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 sister	nmod:poss
42	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 lap	nmod:poss
43	's	's	PART	_	42 sister	case
44	lap	lap	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 laid	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 stroked	punct
46	while	while	SCONJ	_	48 stroked	mark
47	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 stroked	nsubj
48	stroked	stroke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 laid	conj
49	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 wings	nmod:poss
50	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 stroked	obj
51	;	;	PUNCT	_	54 remained	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 remained	cc
53	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 remained	nsubj
54	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 changed	conj
55	together	together	ADV	_	54 remained	advmod
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 day	det
57	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 day	amod
58	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 remained	obl:unmarked
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 changed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	past · passive		Eliza's brothers		again	to swans	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	fly	past	brothers = brother		circles		wide property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in circle=Location
3	is	past	brothers = brother				away, far property	tree rules
4	remain	participle		the youngest swan not said here			behind property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	lay	past		his head	his sister's lap			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme in lap=Destination
6	stroke	past	Eliza	his wings				vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Experiencer
7	remain	past	wings = wing			day	together property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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