Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 3, sentence 9

They saw her vanish through the wicket gate into the churchyard, and when they came nearer they saw the ghouls sitting on the tombstone, as Eliza had seen them, and the king turned away his head, for he thought she was with them--she whose head had rested on his breast that very evening. "

Who acts: tears, ghouls, Eliza, king, that · What happens: see, vanish, come, sit, turn away, think · To what, where: wicket gate, ghouls, tombstone, head, Eliza, breast · 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 (tears, ghouls, Eliza, king), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 vanish	nmod:poss
4	vanish	vanish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 saw	xcomp
5	through	through	ADP	_	8 gate	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 gate	det
7	wicket	wicket	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gate	compound
8	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 vanish	obl
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 churchyard	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 churchyard	det
11	churchyard	churchyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 vanish	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 saw	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 saw	cc
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 came	advmod
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 came	nsubj
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 saw	advcl
17	nearer	near	ADV	Degree=Cmp	16 came	advmod
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 saw	nsubj
19	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	parataxis
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 ghouls	det
21	ghouls	ghoul	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 saw	obj
22	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 ghouls	acl
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 tombstone	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 tombstone	det
25	tombstone	tombstone	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sitting	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 seen	punct
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 seen	mark
28	Eliza	Eliza	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 seen	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 seen	aux
30	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 saw	conj
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 seen	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 turned	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 turned	cc
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 king	det
35	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 turned	nsubj
36	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	parataxis
37	away	away	ADP	_	36 turned	compound:prt
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 head	nmod:poss
39	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 turned	obj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 thought	punct
41	for	for	SCONJ	_	43 thought	mark
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 thought	nsubj
43	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 turned	conj
44	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 them	nsubj
45	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 them	cop
46	with	with	ADP	_	47 them	case
47	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 thought	ccomp
48	--	--	PUNCT	_	53 rested	punct
49	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 rested	nsubj
50	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	51 head	nmod:poss
51	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 rested	nsubj:pass
52	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 rested	aux
53	rested	rest	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 saw	parataxis
54	on	on	ADP	_	56 breast	case
55	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 breast	nmod:poss
56	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 rested	obl
57	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	59 evening	nsubj
58	very	very	ADV	_	59 evening	advmod
59	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 breast	appos
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	53 rested	punct
61	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	tears = tear				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	vanish	infinitive	tears = tear not said here		the wicket gate	into the churchyard	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come	past	tears = tear			near property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	see	past	tears = tear	the ghouls			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ghoul=Stimulus
5	sit	gerund	the ghouls not said here		the tombstone		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on tombstone=Location
6	see	past · perfect	Eliza	ghouls = ghoul			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
7	turn away	past	the king	king's head			vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme
8	think speech: other	past	king				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	is	past	Eliza			with tears = tear	tree rules
10	rest	past · perfect · passive		Eliza	king's breast		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: subject=Theme on breast=Location
11	evening		that				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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