Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, sentence 53

In the autumn, an eagle, standing upon a pyramid, saw a stately train of richly laden camels, and men attired in armor on foaming Arabian steeds, whose glossy skins shone like silver, their nostrils were pink, and their thick, flowing manes hung almost to their slender legs.

Who acts: eagle, men, nostrils · What happens: stand, see, lade, attire, foam, shine · To what, where: pyramid, stately train, Arabian steeds, glossy skins, flowing manes

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 (eagle, men, nostrils), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 autumn	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 autumn	det
3	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 saw	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 eagle	punct
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 eagle	det
6	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 autumn	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 standing	punct
8	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 eagle	acl
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	11 pyramid	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 pyramid	det
11	pyramid	pyramid	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 standing	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 autumn	punct
13	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 train	det
15	stately	stately	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 train	amod
16	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 saw	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 camels	case
18	richly	richly	ADV	_	19 laden	advmod
19	laden	lade	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 camels	amod
20	camels	camel	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 train	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 attired	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 attired	cc
23	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 attired	nsubj
24	attired	attire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 saw	conj
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 armor	case
26	armor	armor	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 attired	obl
27	on	on	SCONJ	_	28 foaming	mark
28	foaming	foam	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 attired	advcl
29	Arabian	Arabian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 steeds	amod
30	steeds	steed	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 foaming	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 skins	punct
32	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	34 skins	nmod:poss
33	glossy	glossy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 skins	amod
34	skins	skin	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 steeds	appos
35	shone	shine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 skins	acl
36	like	like	ADP	_	37 silver	case
37	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 shone	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 pink	punct
39	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 nostrils	nmod:poss
40	nostrils	nostril	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 pink	nsubj
41	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 pink	cop
42	pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 steeds	conj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 thick	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 thick	cc
45	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 thick	nmod:poss
46	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 saw	parataxis
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 flowing	punct
48	flowing	flow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	49 manes	amod
49	manes	manis	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 thick	conj
50	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	49 manes	acl
51	almost	almost	ADV	_	55 legs	advmod
52	to	to	ADP	_	55 legs	case
53	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 legs	nmod:poss
54	slender	slender	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 legs	amod
55	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 hung	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	gerund	a eagle not said here		a pyramid			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon pyramid=Location
2	see	past		a stately train of laden camels		autumn		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer train=Stimulus
3	lade	participle					richly property	tree rules
4	attire	participle	men				in armor	vn dress-41.1.1-1-2 «Passive»: agent=Pivot in armor=Theme
5	foam	gerund	men not said here	Arabian steeds				vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location steed=Theme
6	shine	participle		Arabian steeds's glossy skins not said here			like silver	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	is	past	men's nostrils				pink property	tree rules
8	flow	gerund						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	hang	participle		flowing manes not said here			to men's slender legs	vn assuming_position-50 «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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