Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 43

The swans shook their heads, for what she beheld were the beautiful ever-changing cloud palaces of the "Fata Morgana," into which no mortal can enter.

Who acts: swans, head, mortal · What happens: shake, behold, change, be, enter · To what, where: heads, beautiful changing cloud palaces

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 (swans, head, mortal), 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 swans	det
2	swans	swan	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 shook	nsubj
3	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 heads	nmod:poss
5	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 shook	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 what	punct
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 what	case
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 palaces	nsubj
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 beheld	nsubj
10	beheld	behold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 what	acl:relcl
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 palaces	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 palaces	det
13	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 palaces	amod
14	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	16 changing	advmod
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 ever	punct
16	changing	change	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 palaces	amod
17	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 palaces	compound
18	palaces	palace	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 shook	parataxis
19	of	of	ADP	_	23 Morgana	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Morgana	det
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 Fata	punct
22	Fata	Fata	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Morgana	compound
23	Morgana	Morgana	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 palaces	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 enter	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 enter	punct
26	into	into	ADP	_	27 which	case
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 enter	obl
28	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	29 mortal	det
29	mortal	mortal	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 enter	nsubj
30	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 enter	aux
31	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 shook	parataxis
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shook	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	shake	past	the swans	swans's heads			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient
2	behold	past	head				vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer
3	change	gerund			ever		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past		the beautiful changing cloud palaces		of the Fata Morgana	tree rules
5	enter	can	no mortal				vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into which=Initial_Location

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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