The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 61
He blew his silver whistle, and the swallow who acted as messenger in the golden castle flew past.
Who acts: number, swallow · What happens: blow, act, fly, whistle · To what, where: silver whistle, golden castle
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (number, swallow), 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 blew | nsubj |
| 2 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 whistle | nmod:poss |
| 4 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 whistle | amod |
| 5 | whistle | whistle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 blew | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 flew | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 flew | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 swallow | det |
| 9 | swallow | swallow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 flew | nsubj |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 acted | nsubj |
| 11 | acted | act | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 swallow | acl:relcl |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 messenger | case |
| 13 | messenger | messenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 acted | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 castle | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 castle | det |
| 16 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 castle | amod |
| 17 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 acted | obl |
| 18 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 blew | conj |
| 19 | past | past | ADV | _ | 18 flew | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 blew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow | past | number | number's silver whistle | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent whistle=Patient | ||||
| 2 | act | past | the swallow | the golden castle | as messenger | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as messenger=Attribute | |||
| 3 | fly | past | the swallow | past property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | whistle | number | nom whistle «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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