Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 3, sentence 20

It was still twilight, and at least an hour before sunrise, when the eleven brothers stood at the castle gate, and demanded to be brought before the king.

Who acts: thrush, eleven brothers · What happens: be, stand, demand, bring · To what, where: castle gate · 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 (thrush, eleven brothers), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 twilight	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 twilight	cop
3	still	still	ADV	_	4 twilight	advmod
4	twilight	twilight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 hour	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 hour	cc
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 least	case
8	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 hour	nmod
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 hour	det
10	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 twilight	obl
11	before	before	ADP	_	12 sunrise	case
12	sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hour	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 stood	punct
14	when	when	SCONJ	_	18 stood	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 brothers	det
16	eleven	eleven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 brothers	nummod
17	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 stood	nsubj
18	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 twilight	parataxis
19	at	at	ADP	_	22 gate	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 gate	det
21	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 gate	compound
22	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 stood	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 demanded	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 demanded	cc
25	demanded	demand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 stood	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	28 brought	mark
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 brought	aux:pass
28	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 demanded	ccomp
29	before	before	ADP	_	31 king	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 king	det
31	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 brought	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 twilight	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	thrush		still; hour	twilight property	tree rules
2	stand	past	the eleven brothers	the castle gate			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at gate=Location
3	demand speech: request	past	the eleven brothers not said here				vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition
4	bring	to-infinitive · passive			before the king		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: before king=Destination

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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