Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 3, sentence 34

And then they pressed towards her, and would have destroyed the coats of mail, but at the same moment eleven wild swans flew over her, and alighted on the cart.

Who acts: pieces, wild swans · What happens: press, destroy, fly, alight · To what, where: coats, cart

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 (pieces, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 pressed	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 pressed	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pressed	nsubj
4	pressed	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	towards	towards	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pressed	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 destroyed	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 destroyed	cc
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 destroyed	aux
10	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 destroyed	aux
11	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 pressed	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 coats	det
13	coats	coat	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 destroyed	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 mail	case
15	mail	mail	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 coats	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 flew	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 flew	cc
18	at	at	ADP	_	21 moment	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 moment	det
20	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 moment	amod
21	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 flew	obl
22	eleven	eleven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 moment	flat
23	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 swans	amod
24	swans	swan	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 flew	nsubj
25	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pressed	conj
26	over	over	ADP	_	27 her	case
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 flew	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 alighted	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 alighted	cc
30	alighted	alight	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 flew	conj
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 cart	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 cart	det
33	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 alighted	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 pressed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	press	past	pieces = piece			then	towards swan	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent towards she=Trajectory
2	destroy	would · perfect	pieces = piece not said here	the coats of mail				vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coat=Patient
3	fly	past	wild swans			moment	over horse	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over she=Location
4	alight	participle	wild swans not said here		the cart			tree rules

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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