Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 40

I heard her tell the two others to take great care of the swan's plumage, while she dipped down into the water to pluck the flowers which she fancied she saw there.

Who acts: I, swan, flowers, plumage · What happens: hear, tell, take, dip down, pluck, fancy · To what, where: swan, two others, great care, water, flowers · 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 (I, swan, flowers, plumage), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 heard	nsubj
2	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 heard	obj
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 heard	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 others	det
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 others	nummod
7	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tell	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 take	mark
9	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tell	ccomp
10	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 care	amod
11	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 take	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	16 plumage	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 swan	det
14	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 plumage	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 swan	case
16	plumage	plumage	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 care	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 dipped	punct
18	while	while	SCONJ	_	20 dipped	mark
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 dipped	nsubj
20	dipped	dip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 heard	conj
21	down	down	ADV	_	20 dipped	advmod
22	into	into	ADP	_	24 water	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 water	det
24	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 dipped	obl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 pluck	mark
26	pluck	pluck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 dipped	advcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 flowers	det
28	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 pluck	obj
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 fancied	nsubj
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 fancied	nsubj
31	fancied	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 flowers	acl:relcl
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 saw	nsubj
33	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 fancied	ccomp
34	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 saw	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past	I	swan			tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	swan not said here	the two others			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent other=Recipient clause=Topic
3	take not said to happen	to-infinitive		great care of the swan's plumage			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
4	dip down	past	swan		the water	down property	vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into water=Location
5	pluck	to-infinitive	swan not said here	the flowers			vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Patient
6	fancy	past	the flowers				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	see	past	swan		there		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
8	care		the swan's plumage				nom care «act intransitive»: of=agent

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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