Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 45

So saying, they tore the swan's plumage into a thousand pieces, the feathers drifted about like a snow-shower, and then the two deceitful princesses flew away."

Who acts: others, feathers, two deceitful princesses · What happens: say, tore, drift, fly away · To what, where: plumage, thousand pieces · 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 (others, feathers, two deceitful princesses), 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	So	so	ADV	_	2 saying	advmod
2	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 tore	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 saying	punct
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tore	nsubj
5	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 swan	det
7	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 plumage	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 swan	case
9	plumage	plumage	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tore	obj
10	into	into	ADP	_	13 pieces	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 thousand	det
12	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 pieces	nummod
13	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tore	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 drifted	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 feathers	det
16	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 drifted	nsubj
17	drifted	drift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tore	conj
18	about	about	ADV	_	17 drifted	advmod
19	like	like	ADP	_	23 shower	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 shower	det
21	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 shower	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 snow	punct
23	shower	shower	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 drifted	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 flew	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 flew	cc
26	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 flew	advmod
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 princesses	det
28	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 princesses	nummod
29	deceitful	deceitful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 princesses	amod
30	princesses	princess	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 flew	nsubj
31	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 drifted	conj
32	away	away	ADV	_	31 flew	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tore	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 tore	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund	others = other not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	tore	past	others = other	the swan's plumage	thousand pieces			tree rules
3	drift	past	the feathers				like a snow shower; about property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	fly away	past	the two deceitful princesses			then	away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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