Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, sentence 50

While flying in the swan's plumage she had learnt the bird language; she had often conversed with the stork and the swallow, and she knew that the nightingale would understand.

Who acts: nightingale · What happens: fly, learn, converse, know, understand · To what, where: plumage, bird language, nightingale · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nightingale), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	2 flying	mark
2	flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 conversed	advcl
3	in	in	ADP	_	7 plumage	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 swan	det
5	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 plumage	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 swan	case
7	plumage	plumage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flying	obl
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 learnt	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 learnt	aux
10	learnt	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 plumage	acl:relcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 language	det
12	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 language	compound
13	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 learnt	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 flying	punct
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 conversed	nsubj:pass
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 conversed	aux
17	often	often	ADV	_	18 conversed	advmod
18	conversed	converse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 stork	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 stork	det
21	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 conversed	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 swallow	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 swallow	det
24	swallow	swallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 stork	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 knew	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 knew	cc
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 knew	nsubj
28	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 conversed	conj
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 understand	mark
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 nightingale	det
31	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 understand	nsubj
32	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 understand	aux
33	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 knew	ccomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 conversed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fly	gerund			the swan's plumage		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in plumage=Location
2	learn	past · perfect	nightingale	the bird language			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent language=Topic
3	converse speech: other	past · perfect · passive		nightingale		with the stork and the swallow; often property	tree rules
4	know	past	nightingale				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	understand	would	the nightingale				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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