The Yellow Fairy Book, The Six Swans, sentence 78
The six shirts were done; there was only the left sleeve wanting to the last.
Who acts: left sleeve · What happens: do, be, want · To what, where: six shirts
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 (left sleeve), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 shirts | det |
| 2 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 shirts | nummod |
| 3 | shirts | shirt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 done | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 done | aux:pass |
| 5 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 was | punct |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 was | expl |
| 8 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 done | parataxis |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 12 sleeve | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sleeve | det |
| 11 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 sleeve | amod |
| 12 | sleeve | sleeve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 was | nsubj |
| 13 | wanting | want | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 sleeve | acl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 last | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 last | det |
| 16 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 wanting | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · passive | the six shirts | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | be | past | the left sleeve | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | want | gerund | the left sleeve not said here | to the last | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent to last=Attribute |
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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