The Yellow Fairy Book, The Six Swans, sentence 34
But when the sun had set she heard a noise, and saw six swans flying in at the window.
Who acts: maiden, six swans · What happens: set, hear, see, fly in · To what, where: sun, noise, six swans, window
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 (maiden, six swans), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 heard | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 set | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sun | det |
| 4 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 set | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 set | aux |
| 6 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 heard | advcl |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 heard | nsubj |
| 8 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 noise | det |
| 10 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 heard | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 saw | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 saw | cc |
| 13 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 heard | conj |
| 14 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 swans | nummod |
| 15 | swans | swan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 saw | obj |
| 16 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 swans | acl |
| 17 | in | in | ADV | _ | 16 flying | advmod |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 window | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 window | det |
| 20 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 flying | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past · perfect · passive | the sun | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result | |||||
| 2 | hear | past | maiden | a noise | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | see | past | maiden not said here | six swans | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer swan=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | fly in | gerund | six swans not said here | the window | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at window=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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