Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 33

Something in their manner of flying seemed to say to me, 'Look carefully now; there is one not all swan, only swan's feathers.'

Who acts: manner, Something, one swan · What happens: fly, seem, say, look, be · To what, where: me · 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 (manner, Something, one 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	Something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 seemed	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 manner	case
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 manner	nmod:poss
4	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Something	nmod
5	of	of	SCONJ	_	6 flying	mark
6	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 manner	acl
7	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 say	mark
9	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 seemed	xcomp
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 me	case
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 say	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Look	punct
13	'	'	PUNCT	_	14 Look	punct
14	Look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 say	conj
15	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	14 Look	advmod
16	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 Look	advmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 is	punct
18	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	19 is	expl
19	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 seemed	parataxis
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 swan	nummod
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 swan	advmod
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 swan	det
23	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 is	nsubj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 feathers	punct
25	only	only	ADV	_	26 swan	advmod
26	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 feathers	compound
27	's	's	PART	_	26 swan	case
28	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 swan	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 is	punct
30	'	'	PUNCT	_	19 is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	gerund	rushes's manner not said here					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	seem	past	Something					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	Something not said here	me				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to i=Recipient
4	look	infinitive	Something not said here			now	carefully property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	does	present	all one swan and swan feathers		there			vn exist-47.1 «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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