Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 5

Towards evening, the rest came back, and as the sun went down they resumed their natural forms. "

Who acts: rest, sun, wings · What happens: come back, go down, resume, form · To what, where: natural forms

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 (rest, sun, 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	Towards	toward	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 evening	compound
2	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 evening	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 rest	det
5	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 came	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 resumed	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 resumed	cc
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 went	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sun	det
12	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	nsubj
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 resumed	advcl
14	down	down	ADV	_	13 went	advmod
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 resumed	nsubj
16	resumed	resume	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 forms	nmod:poss
18	natural	natural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 forms	amod
19	forms	form	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 resumed	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come back	past	the rest		evening		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go down	past	the sun			down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	resume	past	wings = wing	wings's natural forms			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Eventuality
4	form		wings = wing				nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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