English Fairy Tales, Earl Mar's Daughter, sentence 46

Then the herons gathered themselves together into one feather bed and the cygnets placed their mother upon them, and suddenly they all rose in the air bearing the bride away with them in safety towards Prince Florentine's home.

Who acts: herons, cygnets · What happens: gather, place, rise, bear away · To what, where: herons, mother, air, bride, safety

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Earl Mar's Daughter. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (herons, cygnets), 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 gathered	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 herons	det
3	herons	heron	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 gathered	nsubj
4	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 gathered	obj
6	together	together	ADV	_	4 gathered	advmod
7	into	into	ADP	_	10 bed	case
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 bed	nummod
9	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bed	compound
10	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gathered	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 placed	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 cygnets	det
13	cygnets	cygnet	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 placed	nsubj
14	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gathered	conj
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 mother	nmod:poss
16	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 placed	obj
17	upon	upon	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 placed	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 rose	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 rose	cc
21	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	24 rose	advmod
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 rose	nsubj
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 rose	advmod
24	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gathered	conj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 air	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 air	det
27	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 rose	obl
28	bearing	bear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 rose	advcl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 bride	det
30	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 bearing	obj
31	away	away	ADV	_	28 bearing	advmod
32	with	with	ADP	_	33 them	case
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 bearing	obl
34	in	in	ADP	_	35 safety	case
35	safety	safety	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 bearing	obl
36	towards	towards	ADP	_	40 home	case
37	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 Florentine	nmod:desc
38	Florentine	Florentine	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 home	nmod:poss
39	's	's	PART	_	38 Florentine	case
40	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 safety	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gathered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gather	past	the herons	herons = heron		then	into one feather bed; together property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient into bed=Co-Patient
2	place	past	the cygnets	herons's mother			upon herons = heron	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent mother=Theme upon they=Destination
3	rise	past	herons = heron		the air		suddenly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in air=Location
4	bear away	gerund	herons = heron not said here	the bride	safety towards Florentine Prince's home		with herons = heron; away property	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bride=Patient

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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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