Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 86
Then beautiful Helga rose as a mighty swan, and spread her wings with the rushing sound of troops of birds of passage flying through the air.
Who acts: beautiful Helga, passage · What happens: rise, spread, rush, fly · To what, where: wings, air
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 (beautiful Helga, passage), 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 | 4 rose | advmod |
| 2 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Helga | amod |
| 3 | Helga | Helga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 rose | nsubj |
| 4 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 swan | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 swan | det |
| 7 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 swan | amod |
| 8 | swan | swan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rose | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 spread | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 spread | cc |
| 11 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rose | conj |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 wings | nmod:poss |
| 13 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 spread | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 sound | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sound | det |
| 16 | rushing | rush | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 sound | amod |
| 17 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 spread | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 troops | case |
| 19 | troops | troops | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 17 sound | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 birds | case |
| 21 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 troops | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 passage | case |
| 23 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 birds | nmod |
| 24 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 passage | acl |
| 25 | through | through | ADP | _ | 27 air | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 air | det |
| 27 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 flying | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | beautiful Helga | then | as a mighty swan | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | spread | past | beautiful Helga not said here | Helga's wings | with the rushing sound of troops of birds of passage | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent wing=Destination with sound=Theme | |||
| 3 | rush | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | fly | gerund | passage not said here | the air | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through air=Location |
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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