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The Yellow Fairy Book, The Six Swans, sentence 79

When she was led to the stake, she laid the shirts on her arm, and as she stood on the pile and the fire was about to be lighted, she looked around her and saw six swans flying through the air.

Who acts: sleeve, fire, six swans · What happens: lead, lay, stand, be, light, look · To what, where: sleeve, stake, shirts, arm, pile, six swans

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 (sleeve, fire, 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

advmodnsubjaux:passadvclcasedetoblpunctnsubjdetobjcasenmod:possoblpunctccmarknsubjconjcasedetoblccdetnsubjcopconjmarkaux:passxcomppunctnsubjparataxiscaseoblccconjnummodobjaclcasedetoblpunctrootWhenADVshePRONwasAUXledVERBtoADPtheDETstakeNOUN,PUNCTshePRONlaidVERBtheDETshirtsNOUNonADPherPRONarmNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJasSCONJshePRONstoodVERBonADPtheDETpileNOUNandCCONJtheDETfireNOUNwasAUXaboutADJtoPARTbeAUXlightedVERB,PUNCTshePRONlookedVERBaroundADPherPRONandCCONJsawVERBsixNUMswansNOUNflyingVERBthroughADPtheDETairNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhenwhenADVPronType=Int4 ledadvmod
2sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs4 lednsubj
3wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 ledaux:pass
4ledleadVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass10 laidadvcl
5totoADP_7 stakecase
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 stakedet
7stakestakeNOUNNumber=Sing4 ledobl
8,,PUNCT_4 ledpunct
9sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs10 laidnsubj
10laidlayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 shirtsdet
12shirtsshirtNOUNNumber=Plur10 laidobj
13ononADP_15 armcase
14herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs15 armnmod:poss
15armarmNOUNNumber=Sing10 laidobl
16,,PUNCT_20 stoodpunct
17andandCCONJ_20 stoodcc
18asasSCONJ_20 stoodmark
19sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs20 stoodnsubj
20stoodstandVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin10 laidconj
21ononADP_23 pilecase
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art23 piledet
23pilepileNOUNNumber=Sing20 stoodobl
24andandCCONJ_28 aboutcc
25thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 firedet
26firefireNOUNNumber=Sing28 aboutnsubj
27wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin28 aboutcop
28aboutaboutADJDegree=Pos20 stoodconj
29totoPART_31 lightedmark
30bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf31 lightedaux:pass
31lightedlightVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass28 aboutxcomp
32,,PUNCT_34 lookedpunct
33sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs34 lookednsubj
34lookedlookVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin10 laidparataxis
35aroundaroundADP_36 hercase
36hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs34 lookedobl
37andandCCONJ_38 sawcc
38sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin34 lookedconj
39sixsixNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card40 swansnummod
40swansswanNOUNNumber=Plur38 sawobj
41flyingflyVERBVerbForm=Ger40 swansacl
42throughthroughADP_44 aircase
43thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art44 airdet
44airairNOUNNumber=Sing41 flyingobl
45..PUNCT_10 laidpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1leadpast · passivesleevethe stakevn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to stake=Destination
2laypastsleevethe shirtssleeve's armvn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent shirt=Theme on arm=Destination
3standpastsleevethe pilevn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on pile=Location
4ispastthe fireabout propertytree rules
5lightto-infinitive · passivethe fire not said herevn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»
6lookpastsleevearound mothervn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent around she=Theme
7seepastsleeve not said heresix swansvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer swan=Stimulus
8flygerundsix swans not said herethe airvn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through air=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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