Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 52

Then it appeared to her as if she were flying high in the air, towards the cloudy palace of the "Fata Morgana," and a fairy came out to meet her, radiant and beautiful in appearance, and yet very much like the old woman who had given her berries in the wood, and who had told her of the swans with golden crowns on their heads. "

Who acts: it, thought, fairy, old woman · What happens: appear, fly, come out, meet, give, tell · To what, where: thought, air, berries, wood, heads · 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 (it, thought, fairy, old woman), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 appeared	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 appeared	nsubj
3	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 her	case
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 appeared	obl
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 flying	mark
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 flying	mark
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 flying	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 flying	aux
10	flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 appeared	advcl
11	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 flying	advmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 air	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 air	det
14	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 flying	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 palace	punct
16	towards	towards	ADP	_	19 palace	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 palace	det
18	cloudy	cloudy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 palace	amod
19	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 flying	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 Fata	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Fata	det
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 Fata	punct
23	Fata	Fata	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 palace	nmod
24	Morgana	Morgana	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Fata	flat
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 flying	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 flying	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 came	cc
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 fairy	det
29	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 came	nsubj
30	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 appeared	conj
31	out	out	ADV	_	30 came	advmod
32	to	to	PART	_	33 meet	mark
33	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 came	advcl
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 meet	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 radiant	punct
36	radiant	radiant	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 meet	obj
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 beautiful	cc
38	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 radiant	conj
39	in	in	ADP	_	40 appearance	case
40	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 beautiful	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 woman	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 woman	cc
43	yet	yet	ADV	_	45 much	advmod
44	very	very	ADV	_	45 much	advmod
45	much	much	ADV	_	49 woman	advmod
46	like	like	ADP	_	49 woman	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 woman	det
48	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 woman	amod
49	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 appeared	obl
50	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	52 given	nsubj
51	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 given	aux
52	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	49 woman	acl:relcl
53	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 berries	nmod:poss
54	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 given	obj
55	in	in	ADP	_	57 wood	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 wood	det
57	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 given	obl
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 told	punct
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	62 told	cc
60	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	62 told	nsubj
61	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	62 told	aux
62	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 appeared	conj
63	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	62 told	iobj
64	of	of	ADP	_	66 swans	case
65	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	66 swans	det
66	swans	swan	NOUN	Number=Plur	62 told	obl
67	with	with	ADP	_	69 crowns	case
68	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	69 crowns	amod
69	crowns	crown	NOUN	Number=Plur	66 swans	nmod
70	on	on	ADP	_	72 heads	case
71	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	72 heads	nmod:poss
72	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	62 told	obl
73	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 appeared	punct
74	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 appeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	appear	past	it		thought		then	like the old woman	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fly	past · progressive	thought			the air		towards the cloudy palace of the Fata; high property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent in air=Location
3	come out	past	a fairy					out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
4	meet	to-infinitive	a fairy not said here	thought					tree rules
5	give	past · perfect	the old woman	thought's berries		the wood			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berry=Theme
6	tell speech: assert	past · perfect			thought	crowns's heads		of the swans with golden crowns	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient

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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