The Yellow Fairy Book, The Six Swans, sentence 26

And she told him that looking out of her little window she had seen her brothers flying over the wood in the shape of swans, and she showed him the feathers which they had let fall in the yard, and which she had collected.

Who acts: girl, that, brothers · What happens: tell, look out, see, fly, show, let · To what, where: father, little window, brothers, wood, feathers · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (girl, that, brothers), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 told	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 looking	nsubj
6	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 told	advcl
7	out	out	ADP	_	11 window	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 window	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 window	nmod:poss
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 window	amod
11	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 looking	obl
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 seen	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 seen	aux
14	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 looking	ccomp
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 brothers	nmod:poss
16	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 seen	obj
17	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 brothers	acl
18	over	over	ADP	_	20 wood	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 wood	det
20	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 flying	obl
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 shape	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 shape	det
23	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 flying	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 swans	case
25	swans	swan	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 shape	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 showed	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 showed	cc
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 showed	nsubj
29	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	conj
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 showed	iobj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 feathers	det
32	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 showed	obj
33	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 let	nsubj:pass
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 let	nsubj:pass
35	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 let	aux
36	let	let	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 feathers	acl:relcl
37	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 let	obj
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 yard	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 yard	det
40	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 fall	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 collected	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 collected	cc
43	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	46 collected	nsubj:pass
44	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 collected	nsubj
45	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 collected	aux
46	collected	collect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 told	parataxis
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	girl		father			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	look out	gerund	that	girl's little window				tree rules
3	see	past · perfect	girl	girl's brothers				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer brother=Stimulus
4	fly	gerund	girl's brothers not said here			the wood	in the shape of swans	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over wood=Location
5	show	past	girl	the feathers	father			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient feather=Topic
6	let	past · perfect · passive		the feathers				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient fall=Theme
7	collect	past · perfect · passive						vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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 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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