The Yellow Fairy Book, The Six Swans, sentence 82
When they had touched them the swan-skins fell off, and her brothers stood before her living, well and beautiful.
Who acts: swans, swan skins, brothers, sleeve · What happens: touch, fall off, stand, live · To what, where: shirts, living
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, swan skins, brothers, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 touched | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 touched | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 touched | aux |
| 4 | touched | touch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 fell | advcl |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 touched | obj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 skins | det |
| 7 | swan | swan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 skins | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 swan | punct |
| 9 | skins | skin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 fell | nsubj |
| 10 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 fell | compound:prt |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 stood | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 stood | cc |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 15 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 stood | nsubj |
| 16 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 fell | conj |
| 17 | before | before | ADP | _ | 19 living | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 living | nmod:poss |
| 19 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stood | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 well | punct |
| 21 | well | well | INTJ | _ | 16 stood | discourse |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 beautiful | cc |
| 23 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 well | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | touch | past · perfect | swans = swan | shirts = shirt | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | fall off | past | the swan skins | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | stand | past | sleeve's brothers | sleeve's living | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before living=Location | ||||
| 4 | live | sleeve | nom living «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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