Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 91

Troops of the birds were flying in circles over the castle and the highest trees; but just before her, as she stood on the threshold and close to the well where Helga had so often sat and alarmed her with her wildness, now stood two swans, gazing at her with intelligent eyes.

Who acts: Troops, wife, Helga · What happens: fly, stand, have, sit, alarm, gaze · To what, where: circles, threshold, wife, two 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 (Troops, wife, Helga), 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	Troops	troops	NOUN	Number=Ptan	6 flying	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 birds	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 birds	det
4	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Troops	nmod
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 flying	aux
6	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 circles	case
8	circles	circle	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 flying	obl
9	over	over	ADP	_	11 castle	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 castle	det
11	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 circles	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 trees	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 trees	det
14	highest	high	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 trees	amod
15	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 castle	conj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 her	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 her	cc
18	just	just	ADV	_	20 her	advmod
19	before	before	ADP	_	20 her	case
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 flying	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 stood	punct
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 stood	mark
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 stood	nsubj
24	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 flying	parataxis
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 threshold	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 threshold	det
27	threshold	threshold	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 stood	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 close	cc
29	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 stood	conj
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 well	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 well	det
32	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 close	obl
33	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	35 had	advmod
34	Helga	Helga	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 had	nsubj
35	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 well	acl:relcl
36	so	so	ADV	_	38 sat	advmod
37	often	often	ADV	_	38 sat	advmod
38	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 had	advcl
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 alarmed	cc
40	alarmed	alarm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 sat	conj
41	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 alarmed	obj
42	with	with	ADP	_	44 wildness	case
43	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 wildness	nmod:poss
44	wildness	wildness	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 alarmed	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 stood	punct
46	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	47 stood	advmod
47	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 sat	conj
48	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	49 swans	nummod
49	swans	swan	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 stood	obj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 gazing	punct
51	gazing	gaze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	47 stood	advcl
52	at	at	ADP	_	53 her	case
53	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 gazing	obl
54	with	with	ADP	_	56 eyes	case
55	intelligent	intelligent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 eyes	amod
56	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 gazing	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 flying	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past · progressive	Troops of the birds		circles over the castle and the highest trees	before wife		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in circle=Location
2	stand	past	wife		the threshold			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on threshold=Location
3	have	past	Helga					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	sit	past	Helga not said here				often property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	alarm	past	Helga not said here	wife			with wife's wildness	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer
6	stand	past	Helga not said here	two swans		now		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer swan=Stimulus
7	gaze	gerund	Helga not said here				at wife; with intelligent eyes	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=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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