Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 43

And while the two were resting in each other's arms, the old stork flew round and round them in narrowing circles, till at length he flew away swiftly to his nest, and fetched away the two suits of swan's feathers, which he had preserved there for many years.

Who acts: two, old stork, beauty · What happens: rest, fly, round, narrow, fly away, fetch away · To what, where: other arms, arms, circles, length, nest, two suits

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 (two, old stork, beauty), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 resting	cc
2	while	while	SCONJ	_	6 resting	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 two	det
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 resting	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 resting	aux
6	resting	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 flew	advcl
7	in	in	ADP	_	11 arms	case
8	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	11 arms	det
9	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 arms	amod
10	's	's	PART	_	9 other	case
11	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 resting	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 resting	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 stork	det
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 stork	amod
15	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 flew	nsubj
16	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	round	round	ADV	_	16 flew	advmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 round	cc
19	round	round	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 flew	conj
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 round	obj
21	in	in	SCONJ	_	22 narrowing	mark
22	narrowing	narrow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 round	advcl
23	circles	circle	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 narrowing	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 length	punct
25	till	till	ADP	_	27 length	case
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 length	case
27	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 round	obl
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 flew	nsubj
29	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 length	acl:relcl
30	away	away	ADV	_	29 flew	advmod
31	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	_	34 nest	advmod
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 nest	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 nest	nmod:poss
34	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 flew	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 fetched	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 fetched	cc
37	fetched	fetch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 flew	conj
38	away	away	ADV	_	37 fetched	advmod
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 suits	det
40	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	41 suits	nummod
41	suits	suit	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 fetched	obj
42	of	of	ADP	_	45 feathers	case
43	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 feathers	nmod:poss
44	's	's	PART	_	43 swan	case
45	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 suits	nmod
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 preserved	punct
47	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	50 preserved	nsubj:pass
48	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 preserved	nsubj
49	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 preserved	aux
50	preserved	preserve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	45 feathers	acl
51	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	50 preserved	advmod
52	for	for	ADP	_	54 years	case
53	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 years	amod
54	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 preserved	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rest	past · progressive	the two		each other arms			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in arm=Location
2	fly	past	the old stork				round property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	round	infinitive	the old stork not said here	arms = arm		till length		vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient
4	narrow	gerund	the old stork not said here	circles				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent circle=Patient
5	fly away	past	beauty	length not said here	beauty's nest		away property	vn drive-11.5-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent length=Theme to nest=Destination
6	fetch away	past	the old stork not said here	the two suits of swan's feathers			away property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent suit=Theme
7	preserve	past · perfect · passive		swan's feathers	there	year		vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary

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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