Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 3, sentence 14

Towards evening, she heard at the grating the flutter of a swan's wing, it was her youngest brother--he had found his sister, and she sobbed for joy, although she knew that very likely this would be the last night she would have to live.

Who acts: Eliza, soul, wind, this, wing · What happens: hear, be, find, sob, know, have · To what, where: grating, youngest brother, sister, last night · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eliza, soul, wind, this), 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	5 heard	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 evening	punct
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 heard	nsubj
5	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 grating	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 grating	det
8	grating	grating	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heard	obl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 flutter	det
10	flutter	flutter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grating	appos
11	of	of	ADP	_	15 wing	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 swan	det
13	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wing	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 swan	case
15	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 flutter	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 brother	punct
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 brother	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 brother	cop
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 brother	nmod:poss
20	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 brother	amod
21	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heard	conj
22	--	--	PUNCT	_	25 found	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 found	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 found	aux
25	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 brother	acl:relcl
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 sister	nmod:poss
27	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 found	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 sobbed	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 sobbed	cc
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 sobbed	nsubj
31	sobbed	sob	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heard	conj
32	for	for	ADP	_	33 joy	case
33	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sobbed	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 knew	punct
35	although	although	SCONJ	_	37 knew	mark
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 knew	nsubj
37	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 sobbed	conj
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	49 have	mark
39	very	very	ADV	_	40 likely	advmod
40	likely	likely	ADV	_	46 night	advmod
41	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	46 night	nsubj
42	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 night	aux
43	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	46 night	cop
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 night	det
45	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 night	amod
46	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 have	obl:unmarked
47	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 have	nsubj
48	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 have	aux
49	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 knew	ccomp
50	to	to	PART	_	51 live	mark
51	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 have	xcomp
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	Eliza		the grating	evening		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	past	soul	Eliza's youngest brother				tree rules
3	find	past · perfect	wind	wind's sister				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Topic
4	sob	past	Eliza				for joy	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	know	past	Eliza					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	is a	would	this	the last night			likely property	tree rules
7	have	would	Eliza					tree rules
8	live	to-infinitive	Eliza not said here					vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	flutter		a swan's wing					nom flutter «act intransitive»: of=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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