The Yellow Fairy Book, The Swineherd, sentence 45
It was the only tune she knew, but that she could play with one finger.
Who acts: tune, bird · What happens: be, know, play · To what, where: only tune
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tune, bird), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 tune | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tune | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tune | det |
| 4 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tune | amod |
| 5 | tune | tune | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 knew | nsubj |
| 7 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tune | acl:relcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 play | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 play | cc |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 play | mark |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 play | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 play | aux |
| 13 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 tune | parataxis |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 finger | case |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 finger | nummod |
| 16 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 play | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tune | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | tune | the only tune | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know | past | bird | the only tune not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer tune=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | play | could | bird | with one finger | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with finger=Theme |
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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