Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 44

Then he returned to the mother and daughter, and threw the swan's plumage over them; the feathers immediately closed around them, and they rose up from the earth in the form of two white swans.

Who acts: beauty, feathers · What happens: return, throw, close, rise up, form · To what, where: plumage, feathers, earth, two white swans

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 (beauty, feathers), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 returned	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 returned	nsubj
3	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 mother	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mother	det
6	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 returned	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 daughter	cc
8	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mother	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 threw	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 threw	cc
11	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 returned	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 swan	det
13	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 plumage	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 swan	case
15	plumage	plumage	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 threw	obj
16	over	over	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 threw	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 closed	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 feathers	det
20	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 closed	nsubj:pass
21	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	22 closed	advmod
22	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 returned	conj
23	around	around	ADP	_	24 them	case
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 closed	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 rose	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 rose	cc
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 rose	nsubj
28	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 returned	conj
29	up	up	ADV	_	28 rose	advmod
30	from	from	ADP	_	32 earth	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 earth	det
32	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 rose	obl
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 form	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 form	det
35	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 earth	nmod
36	of	of	ADP	_	39 swans	case
37	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	39 swans	nummod
38	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 swans	amod
39	swans	swan	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 form	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 returned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	return	past	beauty			then	to the mother and daughter result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to mother=Result
2	throw	past	beauty not said here	the swan's plumage			over arms = arm	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent plumage=Theme over they=Destination
3	close	participle · passive		the feathers			around arms = arm; immediately property	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	rise up	past	feathers = feather		the earth in the form of two white swans			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from earth=Initial_Location
5	form			two white swans				nom form «communication 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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