Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 70

The arrow struck our young friend and sister, and slowly singing her farewell song she sank down, a dying swan, into the forest lake.

Who acts: arrow · What happens: strike, sing, sink down, die · To what, where: young friend, farewell song, forest lake

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 (arrow), 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 arrow	det
2	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 struck	nsubj
3	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 friend	nmod:poss
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 friend	amod
6	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 struck	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sister	cc
8	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 friend	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 singing	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 singing	cc
11	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	12 singing	advmod
12	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 struck	advcl
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 song	nmod:poss
14	farewell	farewell	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 song	compound
15	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 singing	obj
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 sank	nsubj
17	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 song	acl:relcl
18	down	down	ADP	_	17 sank	compound:prt
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 swan	punct
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 swan	det
21	dying	die	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 swan	amod
22	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 song	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 lake	punct
24	into	into	ADP	_	27 lake	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 lake	det
26	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lake	compound
27	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 singing	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 struck	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	strike	past	the arrow	our young friend and sister			vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent friend=Instrument
2	sing speech: express	gerund	the arrow not said here	arrow's farewell song and a dying swan	the forest lake	slowly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent song=Topic into lake=Recipient
3	sink down	past	arrow	arrow's farewell song and a dying swan not said here			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent song=Patient
4	die	gerund					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	sing		arrow				nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=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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