Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 14

And have you not fed the swans with bread when they swam towards you?

Who acts: you, swans · What happens: have, not feed, swim · To what, where: swans

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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	_	2 have	cc
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 fed	nsubj
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 fed	advmod
5	fed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 have	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 swans	det
7	swans	swan	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fed	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 bread	case
9	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fed	obl
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 swam	advmod
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 swam	nsubj
12	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fed	conj
13	towards	towards	ADP	_	14 you	case
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 swam	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present				tree rules
2	not feed	past	you	the swans	with bread	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swan=Recipient
3	swim	past	swans = swan		towards you	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards you=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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