The Yellow Fairy Book, The Six Swans, sentence 21

Then she threw over each one a little shirt, which when it had touched their bodies changed them into swans, and they flew away over the forest.

Who acts: queen, little shirt, shirts · What happens: throw, touch, change, fly away · To what, where: little shirt, bodies, swans, forest

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Six Swans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, little shirt, shirts), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 threw	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 threw	nsubj
3	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	over	over	ADP	_	6 one	case
5	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	6 one	det
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 threw	obl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 shirt	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 shirt	amod
9	shirt	shirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 changed	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 touched	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 touched	nsubj:pass
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 touched	advmod
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 touched	nsubj:pass
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 touched	aux
15	touched	touch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 shirt	acl:relcl
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 bodies	nmod:poss
17	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 touched	obj
18	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 threw	conj
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 changed	obj
20	into	into	ADP	_	21 swans	case
21	swans	swan	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 changed	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 flew	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 flew	cc
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 flew	nsubj
25	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 threw	conj
26	away	away	ADV	_	25 flew	advmod
27	over	over	ADP	_	29 forest	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 forest	det
29	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 flew	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past	queen			then	over each one	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent over one=Destination
2	touch	past · perfect · passive		a little shirt				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer body=Result
3	change	past	a little shirt	bodies = body			into swans result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent they=Patient into swan=Result
4	fly away	past	shirts = shirt		the forest		away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over forest=Location

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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