Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 3, sentence 40

Then the people, who saw what happened, bowed to her, as before a saint; but she sank lifeless in her brothers' arms, overcome with suspense, anguish, and pain.

Who acts: people, swan · What happens: see, happen, bow, sink, overcome, anguish · To what, where: swan, pain · 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 (people, swan), 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	6 saw	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 people	det
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 saw	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 saw	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 saw	nsubj
6	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 happened	nsubj
8	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 saw	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bowed	punct
10	bowed	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 saw	parataxis
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 her	case
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 bowed	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 saint	punct
14	as	as	ADP	_	17 saint	case
15	before	before	ADP	_	17 saint	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 saint	det
17	saint	saint	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bowed	conj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 sank	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 sank	cc
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 sank	nsubj
21	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 saw	advcl
22	lifeless	lifeless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 sank	xcomp
23	in	in	ADP	_	27 arms	case
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 brothers	nmod:poss
25	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 arms	nmod:poss
26	'	's	PART	_	25 brothers	case
27	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 lifeless	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 overcome	punct
29	overcome	overcome	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 sank	parataxis
30	with	with	ADP	_	31 suspense	case
31	suspense	suspense	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 overcome	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 anguish	punct
33	anguish	anguish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 overcome	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 pain	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 pain	cc
36	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sank	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	the people			then		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	happen	past						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	bow	past			swan			vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.pivot»: agent=Agent to she=Pivot
4	sink	past	swan	pain			lifeless property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	overcome	present					with suspense	vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
6	anguish	infinitive						vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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