The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 6
Instead, he beheld beneath him a beautiful white swan!
Who acts: he · What happens: behold · To what, where: beautiful white swan
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (he), 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 | Instead | instead | ADV | _ | 4 beheld | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Instead | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 beheld | nsubj |
| 4 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 beheld | obl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 swan | det |
| 8 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 swan | amod |
| 9 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 swan | amod |
| 10 | swan | swan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 beheld | obj |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 beheld | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | behold | past | he | a beautiful white swan | beneath him = he; instead property | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer swan=Stimulus |
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: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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