Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 72

We had our revenge; we bound fire under the wings of a swallow, who had a nest on the thatched roof of the huntsman.

Who acts: We, swallow, our · What happens: have, bound, thatch, revenge · To what, where: revenge, fire, wings, nest, thatched roof

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 (We, swallow, our), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 revenge	nmod:poss
4	revenge	revenge	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 bound	punct
6	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 bound	nsubj
7	bound	bound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
8	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bound	obj
9	under	under	ADP	_	11 wings	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wings	det
11	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 bound	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 swallow	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 swallow	det
14	swallow	swallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wings	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 had	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 had	nsubj
17	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 swallow	acl:relcl
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 nest	det
19	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 had	obj
20	on	on	ADP	_	23 roof	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 roof	det
22	thatched	thatch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 roof	amod
23	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 had	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 huntsman	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 huntsman	det
26	huntsman	huntsman	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 roof	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	past	We	our revenge		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent revenge=Patient
2	bound	present	we	fire	the wings of a swallow	tree rules
3	have	past	a swallow	a nest	the thatched roof of the huntsman	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Patient
4	thatch	participle				vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
5	revenge		our			nom revenge «act transitive»: 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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