Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 32

"Well," said he, "I have kept watch; and this evening I went among the rushes where I thought the marshy ground would bear me, and while I was there three swans came.

Who acts: little, marshy ground, three swans · What happens: say, keep, go, think, bear, be · To what, where: watch, rushes, little · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little, marshy ground, three 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 kept	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 kept	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 kept	nsubj
10	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 kept	aux
11	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 said	ccomp
12	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 kept	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 went	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 went	cc
15	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 evening	det
16	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 went	obl:unmarked
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 went	nsubj
18	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	parataxis
19	among	among	ADP	_	21 rushes	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 rushes	det
21	rushes	rush	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 went	obl
22	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	24 thought	advmod
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 thought	nsubj
24	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 went	advcl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 ground	det
26	marshy	marshy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 ground	amod
27	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 bear	nsubj
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 bear	aux
29	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 thought	ccomp
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 bear	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 came	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 came	cc
33	while	while	SCONJ	_	36 there	mark
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 there	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 there	cop
36	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	39 came	advcl
37	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 swans	nummod
38	swans	swan	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 came	nsubj
39	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 went	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	little					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	keep in a quote	present · perfect	little	watch				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent watch=Theme
3	go in a quote	past	little		the rushes	evening		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme among rush=Location
4	think speech: other in a quote	past	little					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	bear in a quote	would	the marshy ground	little				vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
6	is in a quote	past	little				there property	tree rules
7	come in a quote	past	three swans					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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