Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 56

The parents sat in the nest on the slender minaret, and rested, yet still were busily employed in cleaning and smoothing their feathers, and in sharpening their beaks against their red stockings; then they would stretch out their necks, salute each other, and gravely raise their heads with the high-polished forehead, and soft, smooth feathers, while their brown eyes shone with intelligence.

Who acts: parents, gravely, brown eyes · What happens: sit, rest, employ, smooth, sharpen, stretch out · To what, where: nest, cleaning, feathers, beaks, necks, each

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 (parents, gravely, brown eyes), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 parents	det
2	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 nest	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 nest	det
6	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 minaret	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 minaret	det
9	slender	slender	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 minaret	amod
10	minaret	minaret	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 rested	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 rested	cc
13	rested	rest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 employed	punct
15	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	19 employed	cc
16	still	still	ADV	_	19 employed	advmod
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 employed	aux:pass
18	busily	busily	ADV	_	19 employed	advmod
19	employed	employ	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 rested	parataxis
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 cleaning	case
21	cleaning	cleaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 employed	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 smoothing	cc
23	smoothing	smooth	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 employed	conj
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 feathers	nmod:poss
25	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 smoothing	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 sharpening	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 sharpening	cc
28	in	in	SCONJ	_	29 sharpening	mark
29	sharpening	sharpen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 rested	advcl
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 beaks	nmod:poss
31	beaks	beak	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 sharpening	obj
32	against	against	ADP	_	35 stockings	case
33	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 stockings	nmod:poss
34	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 stockings	amod
35	stockings	stocking	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 sharpening	obl
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 stretch	punct
37	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	40 stretch	advmod
38	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 stretch	nsubj
39	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 stretch	aux
40	stretch	stretch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sat	advcl
41	out	out	ADP	_	40 stretch	compound:prt
42	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 necks	nmod:poss
43	necks	neck	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 stretch	obj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 salute	punct
45	salute	salute	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 stretch	conj
46	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	45 salute	obj
47	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 each	fixed
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 raise	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 raise	cc
50	gravely	gravely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 raise	nsubj
51	raise	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	parataxis
52	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 heads	nmod:poss
53	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 raise	obj
54	with	with	ADP	_	59 forehead	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 forehead	det
56	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 polished	compound
57	-	-	PUNCT	_	56 high	punct
58	polished	polish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	59 forehead	amod
59	forehead	forehead	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 raise	obl
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	65 feathers	punct
61	and	and	CCONJ	_	65 feathers	cc
62	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	65 feathers	amod
63	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 soft	punct
64	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	65 feathers	amod
65	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 raise	obl
66	,	,	PUNCT	_	71 shone	punct
67	while	while	SCONJ	_	71 shone	mark
68	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	70 eyes	nmod:poss
69	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	70 eyes	amod
70	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	71 shone	nsubj
71	shone	shine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	51 raise	conj
72	with	with	ADP	_	73 intelligence	case
73	intelligence	intelligence	NOUN	Number=Sing	71 shone	obl
74	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	the parents		the nest		on the slender minaret	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in nest=Location
2	rest	past	the parents not said here					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	employ	past · passive			cleaning	still	busily property	vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»
4	smooth	gerund		parents's feathers				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent feather=Patient
5	sharpen	gerund	the parents not said here	parents's beaks			against parents's red stockings	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent beak=Patient
6	stretch out	would	parents = parent	parents's necks		then		vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent neck=Patient
7	salute	infinitive	parents = parent not said here	each				vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Topic
8	raise	present	gravely	parents's heads			with the polished forehead; soft smooth feathers obl	vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent head=Patient with forehead=Instrument
9	polish	participle						vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
10	shine	participle	parents's brown eyes				with intelligence	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with intelligence=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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