The Yellow Fairy Book, The Six Swans, sentence 35

They stood on the floor and blew at one another, and blew all their feathers off, and their swan-skin came off like a shirt.

Who acts: swans, swan skin · What happens: stand, blow, come off · To what, where: floor, one, feathers

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 (swans, swan skin), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stood	nsubj
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 floor	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 floor	det
5	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stood	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 blew	cc
7	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	conj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 one	case
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 blew	obj
10	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	9 one	fixed
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 blew	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 blew	cc
13	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	conj
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 feathers	det:predet
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 feathers	nmod:poss
16	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 blew	obj
17	off	off	ADV	_	13 blew	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 came	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 came	cc
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 skin	nmod:poss
21	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 skin	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 swan	punct
23	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 came	nsubj
24	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	parataxis
25	off	off	ADV	_	24 came	compound:prt
26	like	like	ADP	_	28 shirt	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 shirt	det
28	shirt	shirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 came	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past	swans = swan		the floor		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on floor=Location
2	blow	past	swans = swan not said here	one			vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent one=Patient
3	blow	past	swans = swan not said here	swans's feathers		off property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent feather=Patient
4	come off	past	swans's swan skin			like a shirt	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=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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