Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 3, sentence 25
The eleven brothers were seen no more, but eleven wild swans flew away over the castle.
Who acts: eleven wild swans · What happens: see, fly away · To what, where: eleven brothers, castle
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 (eleven wild swans), 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 | 3 brothers | det |
| 2 | eleven | eleven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 brothers | nummod |
| 3 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 seen | aux:pass |
| 5 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | no | no | ADV | _ | 7 more | advmod |
| 7 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 seen | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 flew | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 flew | cc |
| 10 | eleven | eleven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 swans | nummod |
| 11 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 swans | amod |
| 12 | swans | swan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 flew | nsubj |
| 13 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 seen | conj |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 flew | advmod |
| 15 | over | over | ADP | _ | 17 castle | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 castle | det |
| 17 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 flew | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past · passive | the eleven brothers | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | fly away | past | eleven wild swans | the castle | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over castle=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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