The Yellow Fairy Book, The Six Swans, sentence 47
And when the brothers had said this the quarter of an hour came to an end, and they flew away out of the window as swans.
Who acts: quarter, brothers · What happens: say, come, fly away · To what, where: brothers, end, window · 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 (quarter, 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 | _ | 6 said | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 said | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 brothers | det |
| 4 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 said | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | aux |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 said | obj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 quarter | det |
| 9 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 hour | case |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 hour | det |
| 12 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 quarter | nmod |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | ccomp |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 end | case |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 end | det |
| 16 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 flew | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 flew | cc |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 flew | nsubj |
| 20 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 came | conj |
| 21 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 flew | advmod |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 25 window | case |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 window | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 window | det |
| 25 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 flew | obl |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 27 swans | case |
| 27 | swans | swan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 flew | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past · perfect · passive | the brothers | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | come | past | the quarter of a hour | to a end | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | fly away | past | brothers = brother | the window | as swans; away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out 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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