The Yellow Fairy Book, The Six Swans, sentence 81

The swans fluttered round her, and hovered low so that she could throw the shirts over them.

Who acts: swans, sleeve · What happens: flutter, hover, throw · To what, where: 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 (swans, sleeve), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg640:161): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 swans	det
2	swans	swan	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fluttered	nsubj
3	fluttered	flutter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	round	round	ADP	_	5 her	case
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fluttered	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hovered	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 hovered	cc
8	hovered	hover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fluttered	conj
9	low	low	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 hovered	advmod
10	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	14 throw	mark
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 so	fixed
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 throw	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 throw	aux
14	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 hovered	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 shirts	det
16	shirts	shirt	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 throw	obj
17	over	over	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 throw	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fluttered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	flutter	past	the swans		round sleeve	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hover	past	the swans not said here		low property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	throw	could	sleeve	the shirts	over swans = swan	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent shirt=Theme over they=Destination

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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