The Yellow Fairy Book, The Six Swans, sentence 41

‘No,’ they answered, ‘for we can only lay aside our swan skins for a quarter of an hour every evening.

Who acts: brothers, we · What happens: answer, lay · To what, where: swan skins

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 (brothers, we), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 answered	punct
2	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 answered	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 answered	punct
4	’	'	CCONJ	_	6 answered	cc
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 answered	nsubj
6	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 lay	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 lay	punct
9	for	for	SCONJ	_	13 lay	mark
10	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 lay	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 lay	aux
12	only	only	ADV	_	13 lay	advmod
13	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 answered	conj
14	aside	aside	ADV	_	13 lay	advmod
15	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 skins	nmod:poss
16	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 skins	compound
17	skins	skin	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 lay	obj
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 quarter	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 quarter	det
20	quarter	quarter	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lay	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 hour	case
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 hour	det
23	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 quarter	nmod
24	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	25 evening	det
25	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lay	obl:unmarked
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	brothers = brother						vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	lay	can	we	our swan skins			evening	for a quarter of a hour; aside property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent skin=Result for quarter=Beneficiary

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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