More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 13, sentence 29

He called out for the swans, and they managed to take him over; but they found that he was a little heavier than before.

Who acts: boy, swans · What happens: call out, manage, take over, find, be · To what, where: boy

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 (boy, swans), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 called	nsubj
2	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 called	compound:prt
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 swans	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 swans	det
6	swans	swan	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 called	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 managed	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 managed	cc
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 managed	nsubj
10	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 called	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 take	mark
12	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 managed	xcomp
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 take	obj
14	over	over	ADP	_	12 take	compound:prt
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 found	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 found	cc
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 found	nsubj
18	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 called	conj
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 heavier	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 heavier	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 heavier	cop
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 little	det
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 heavier	obl
24	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 found	advcl
25	than	than	ADP	_	26 before	case
26	before	before	ADV	_	24 heavier	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	call out speech: assert	past	boy		for the swans	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for swan=Recipient
2	manage	past	swans = swan			vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	take over	to-infinitive	swans = swan not said here	boy		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	find	past	swans = swan			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	boy		a little obl; heavy property	tree rules

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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