The Yellow Fairy Book, The Six Swans, sentence 83

Only the youngest had a swan’s wing instead of his left arm.

Who acts: youngest · What happens: have · To what, where: wing

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 (youngest), 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	Only	only	ADV	_	4 had	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 youngest	det
3	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 swan	det
6	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wing	nmod:poss
7	’s	's	PART	_	6 swan	case
8	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
9	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	13 arm	case
10	of	of	ADP	_	9 instead	fixed
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 arm	nmod:poss
12	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 arm	amod
13	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the youngest	a swan's wing				instead skin's left arm	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient

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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