Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 95

The swans flapped their wings and arched their necks as if to offer her a greeting, and the Viking's wife spread out her arms towards them, as if she accepted it, and smiled through her tears.

Who acts: swans, wife · What happens: flap, arch, offer, spread out, accept, smile · To what, where: wings, necks, greeting, wife, arms, swan

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 (swans, wife), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 swans	det
2	swans	swan	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 flapped	nsubj
3	flapped	flap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 wings	nmod:poss
5	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 flapped	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 arched	cc
7	arched	arch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 flapped	conj
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 necks	nmod:poss
9	necks	neck	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 arched	obj
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 offer	mark
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 offer	mark
12	to	to	PART	_	13 offer	mark
13	offer	offer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 arched	advcl
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 offer	obj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 greeting	det
16	greeting	greeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 offer	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 spread	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 spread	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Viking	det
20	Viking	Viking	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 wife	nmod:poss
21	's	's	PART	_	20 Viking	case
22	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 spread	nsubj
23	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 flapped	parataxis
24	out	out	ADP	_	23 spread	compound:prt
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 arms	nmod:poss
26	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 spread	obj
27	towards	towards	ADP	_	28 them	case
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 spread	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 accepted	punct
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 accepted	mark
31	if	if	SCONJ	_	33 accepted	mark
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 accepted	nsubj
33	accepted	accept	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 spread	conj
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 accepted	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 smiled	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 smiled	cc
37	smiled	smile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 flapped	parataxis
38	through	through	ADP	_	40 tears	case
39	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 tears	nmod:poss
40	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 smiled	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 flapped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	flap	past	the swans	circles's wings				vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient
2	arch	past	the swans not said here	wings's necks				vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neck=Patient
3	offer	to-infinitive	the swans not said here	a greeting	wife			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent she=Goal greeting=Theme
4	spread out	past	the Viking's wife	wife's arms			towards wings = wing	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location arm=Theme
5	accept a condition, not said to happen	past	wife	swan				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
6	smile	past				wife's tears		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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