Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 43

Swarms of them took divided possession of the nests--nests which lay close to each other between the venerable columns, and crowded the arches of temples in forgotten cities.

Who acts: Swarms, nests · What happens: take, divide, lay, crowd, forget, possess · To what, where: divided possession, venerable columns, arches, forgotten cities, nests

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Swarms, nests), 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	Swarms	swarm	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 took	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Swarms	nmod
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	divided	divide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 possession	amod
6	possession	possession	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 nests	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 nests	det
9	nests	nest	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 possession	nmod
10	--	--	PUNCT	_	11 nests	punct
11	nests	nest	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 nests	conj
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 lay	nsubj
13	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 nests	acl:relcl
14	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 each	advmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 each	case
16	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	13 lay	obl
17	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 each	fixed
18	between	between	ADP	_	21 columns	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 columns	det
20	venerable	venerable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 columns	amod
21	columns	column	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 lay	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 crowded	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 crowded	cc
24	crowded	crowd	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 arches	det
26	arches	arch	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 crowded	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 temples	case
28	temples	temple	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 arches	nmod
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 cities	case
30	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 cities	amod
31	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 crowded	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	Swarms of storks	divided possession of the nests and nests			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possession=Theme
2	divide	participle					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	lay	present	the nests and nests		the venerable columns	to each	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent between column=Destination
4	crowd	past	Swarms of storks not said here	the arches of temples	forgotten cities		vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent arch=Theme in city=Destination
5	forget	participle					tree rules
6	possess			the nests and nests			nom possession «act transitive»: of=patient

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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