--- title: Egyptia's strand!" sang the daughter of the Nile, in her swan's plum… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Egyptia's strand!" sang the daughter of the Nile, in her swan's plumage, as from the upper air she caught sight of her native land, a narrow, golden, wavy strip on the shores of the Nile; the other birds espied it also and hastened their flight. Who acts: strand, other birds. 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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 (strand, other birds), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:87:111 # text = Egyptia's strand!" sang the daughter of the Nile, in her swan's plumage, as from the upper air she caught sight of her native land, a narrow, golden, wavy strip on the shores of the Nile; the other birds espied it also and hastened their flight. 1 Egyptia Egyptia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 strand strand NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ! ! PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 6 sang sing VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 Nile Nile PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 14 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 swan swan NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 16 's 's PART POS _ 15 case _ _ 17 plumage plumage NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 19 as as SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 20 from from ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 upper upper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 24 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 caught catch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 26 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 29 native native ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 33 narrow narrow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 35 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 37 wavy wavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 strip strip NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 39 on on ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 shores shore NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nmod _ _ 42 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 Nile Nile PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ; ; PUNCT : _ 49 punct _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 47 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 49 nsubj _ _ 49 espied espy VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 50 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 49 obj _ _ 51 also also ADV RB _ 49 advmod _ _ 52 and and CCONJ CC _ 53 cc _ _ 53 hastened hasten VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 49 conj _ _ 54 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 55 nmod:poss _ _ 55 flight flight NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 56 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sing** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past | Egyptia's strand | the daughter of the Nile | | strand's swan's plumage | | | tree rules | | 2 | **catch** *in a quote* | past | strand | sight of strand's native land | | the upper air | | a narrow golden wavy strip on the shores of the Nile *obl* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent sight=Theme from air=Source | | 3 | **espy** *in a quote* | past | the other birds | sight | | | | | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | | 4 | **hasten** *in a quote* | past | the other birds *not said here* | shores's flight | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent flight=Patient | | 5 | **sight** *in a quote* | | | strand's native land | | | | | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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:** «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. - ← previous: [sentence 110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/87/110/) - next →: [sentence 112](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/87/112/) - ↑ back to [The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/87/)