Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 38

Just there, by the reeds and the green banks, lay the trunk of an elder-tree; upon this the three swans stood flapping their wings, and looking about them; one of them threw off her plumage, and I immediately recognized her as one of the princesses of our home in Egypt.

Who acts: three swans, one, I · What happens: lay, stand, flap, look, throw off, recognize · To what, where: trunk, wings, plumage, swan

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 (three swans, one, I), 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	Just	just	ADV	_	2 there	advmod
2	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 lay	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 there	punct
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 reeds	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 reeds	det
6	reeds	reed	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 lay	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 banks	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 banks	det
9	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 banks	amod
10	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 reeds	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 reeds	punct
12	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 trunk	det
14	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lay	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	19 tree	case
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 tree	det
17	elder	elder	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tree	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 elder	punct
19	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 trunk	nmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 stood	punct
21	upon	upon	ADP	_	22 this	case
22	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 stood	obl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 swans	det
24	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 swans	nummod
25	swans	swan	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 stood	nsubj
26	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 lay	conj
27	flapping	flap	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 stood	xcomp
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 wings	nmod:poss
29	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 flapping	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 looking	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 looking	cc
32	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 stood	advcl
33	about	about	ADP	_	34 them	case
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 looking	obl
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 threw	punct
36	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	39 threw	nsubj
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 them	case
38	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 one	nmod
39	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 lay	parataxis
40	off	off	ADP	_	42 plumage	case
41	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 plumage	nmod:poss
42	plumage	plumage	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 threw	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 recognized	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 recognized	cc
45	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	47 recognized	nsubj
46	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	47 recognized	advmod
47	recognized	recognize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 threw	conj
48	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 recognized	obj
49	as	as	ADP	_	50 one	case
50	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	47 recognized	obl
51	of	of	ADP	_	53 princesses	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 princesses	det
53	princesses	princess	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 one	nmod
54	of	of	ADP	_	56 home	case
55	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 home	nmod:poss
56	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 princesses	nmod
57	in	in	ADP	_	58 Egypt	case
58	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	Number=Sing	56 home	nmod
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lay	present		the trunk of a elder tree	there	by the reeds and the green banks	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent trunk=Theme by reed=Destination
2	stand	past	the three swans			upon this	vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	flap	gerund	the three swans not said here	trees's wings			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient
4	look	gerund	the three swans not said here			about wings = wing	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about they=Theme
5	throw off	past	one of wings	swan's plumage			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plumage=Theme
6	recognize	past	I	swan		as one of the princesses of our home in Egypt; immediately property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus as one=Attribute

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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