More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 13, sentence 23
A swan under each side, and one in front, took him over in a crack.
Who acts: swan · What happens: take over · To what, where: boy, crack
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (swan), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 swan | det |
| 2 | swan | swan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 took | nsubj |
| 3 | under | under | ADP | _ | 5 side | case |
| 4 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 side | det |
| 5 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 swan | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 one | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 one | cc |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 swan | appos |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 front | case |
| 10 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 one | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 swan | punct |
| 12 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 took | obj |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 took | compound:prt |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 crack | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 crack | det |
| 17 | crack | crack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 took | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take over | past | a swan under each side | boy | a crack | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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