Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 23

In swan's plumage I came here," said the mother, "and here I threw off my feather dress.

Who acts: I · What happens: come, say, throw off · To what, where: plumage, mother, feather dress · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (I), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 plumage	case
2	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 plumage	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 swan	case
4	plumage	plumage	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obl
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 plumage	acl:relcl
7	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 came	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 plumage	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 plumage	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 mother	det
12	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 mother	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 mother	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 threw	cc
16	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 threw	advmod
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 threw	nsubj
18	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	conj
19	off	off	ADP	_	18 threw	compound:prt
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 dress	nmod:poss
21	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 dress	compound
22	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 threw	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	come	past	I	swan's plumage not said here	here	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location plumage=Theme
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past		the mother	swan's plumage	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent mother=Theme in plumage=Manner
3	throw off	past	I	my feather dress	here	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dress=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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