Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 122

Relatives and servants were standing by his couch, when the two beautiful swans who had come with the storks flew into the hall.

Who acts: Relatives, two beautiful swans, storks · What happens: stand, come, fly · To what, where: hall

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 (Relatives, two beautiful swans, storks), 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	Relatives	relative	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 standing	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 servants	cc
3	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Relatives	conj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 standing	aux
5	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 couch	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 couch	nmod:poss
8	couch	couch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 standing	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 come	punct
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 come	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 swans	det
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 swans	nummod
13	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 swans	amod
14	swans	swan	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 come	nsubj
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 come	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 come	aux
17	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 standing	parataxis
18	with	with	SCONJ	_	21 flew	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 storks	det
20	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 flew	nsubj
21	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 come	advcl
22	into	into	ADP	_	24 hall	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 hall	det
24	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 flew	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 standing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	stand	past · progressive	Relatives and servants	by lord's couch	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by couch=Location
2	come	past · perfect	the two beautiful swans		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	fly	past	the storks	into the hall result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into hall=Result

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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