Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 111

Egyptia's strand!" sang the daughter of the Nile, in her swan's plumage, as from the upper air she caught sight of her native land, a narrow, golden, wavy strip on the shores of the Nile; the other birds espied it also and hastened their flight.

Who acts: strand, other birds · What happens: sing, catch, espy, hasten, sight · To what, where: daughter, plumage, sight, upper air, flight, native land

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (strand, other birds), 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	Egyptia	Egyptia	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 strand	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Egyptia	case
3	strand	strand	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sang	nsubj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 strand	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 strand	punct
6	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 daughter	det
8	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sang	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 Nile	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Nile	det
11	Nile	Nile	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 daughter	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 plumage	punct
13	in	in	ADP	_	17 plumage	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 swan	nmod:poss
15	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 plumage	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 swan	case
17	plumage	plumage	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sang	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 caught	punct
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 caught	mark
20	from	from	ADP	_	23 air	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 air	det
22	upper	upper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 air	amod
23	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 caught	obl
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 caught	nsubj
25	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sang	conj
26	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 caught	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 land	case
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 land	nmod:poss
29	native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 land	amod
30	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sight	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 strip	punct
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 strip	det
33	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 strip	amod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 narrow	punct
35	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 strip	amod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 golden	punct
37	wavy	wavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 strip	amod
38	strip	strip	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 caught	obl
39	on	on	ADP	_	41 shores	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 shores	det
41	shores	shore	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 strip	nmod
42	of	of	ADP	_	44 Nile	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 Nile	det
44	Nile	Nile	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 shores	nmod
45	;	;	PUNCT	_	49 espied	punct
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 birds	det
47	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 birds	amod
48	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 espied	nsubj
49	espied	espy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sang	conj
50	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 espied	obj
51	also	also	ADV	_	49 espied	advmod
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 hastened	cc
53	hastened	hasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 espied	conj
54	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 flight	nmod:poss
55	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 hastened	obj
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express in a quote	past	Egyptia's strand	the daughter of the Nile	strand's swan's plumage		tree rules
2	catch in a quote	past	strand	sight of strand's native land	the upper air	a narrow golden wavy strip on the shores of the Nile obl	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent sight=Theme from air=Source
3	espy in a quote	past	the other birds	sight			vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
4	hasten in a quote	past	the other birds not said here	shores's flight			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent flight=Patient
5	sight in a quote			strand's native land			nom sight «cognition 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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