The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 114

As far as he could see, the swan’s head was tucked under its wing, and Houarn, who had never beheld a boat of the sort, went quickly towards it and stepped in, so as to examine it the better.

Who acts: Houarn · What happens: see, tuck, not behold, go, step in, examine · To what, where: head, wing, Houarn, swan, boat

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Houarn), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 far	advmod
2	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 tucked	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 see	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 see	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 see	aux
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 far	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 far	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 swan	det
9	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 head	nmod:poss
10	’s	's	PART	_	9 swan	case
11	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tucked	nsubj:pass
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 tucked	aux:pass
13	tucked	tuck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
14	under	under	ADP	_	16 wing	case
15	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 wing	nmod:poss
16	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tucked	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 went	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 went	cc
19	Houarn	Houarn	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 went	nsubj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 beheld	punct
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 beheld	nsubj:pass
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 beheld	aux
23	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	24 beheld	advmod
24	beheld	behold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 Houarn	acl:relcl
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 boat	det
26	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 beheld	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 sort	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 sort	det
29	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 boat	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Houarn	punct
31	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 tucked	conj
32	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	31 went	advmod
33	towards	towards	ADP	_	34 it	case
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 went	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 stepped	cc
36	stepped	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 went	conj
37	in	in	ADV	_	36 stepped	advmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 examine	punct
39	so	so	ADV	_	42 examine	advmod
40	as	as	SCONJ	_	42 examine	mark
41	to	to	PART	_	42 examine	mark
42	examine	examine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 stepped	conj
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 examine	obj
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 better	det
45	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	42 examine	advmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 tucked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	could	Houarn				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	tuck	past · passive		the swan's head	swan's wing	far property	vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme under wing=Trajectory
3	not behold	past · perfect · passive		Houarn			tree rules
4	go	past	Houarn		swan	quickly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards it=Initial_Location
5	step in	past	Houarn not said here				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	examine	to-infinitive	Houarn not said here	boat			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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: «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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