The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 8
Wax swans were floating about and reflecting themselves in it.
Who acts: Wax swans · What happens: float, reflect · To what, where: swans, castle
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Steadfast Tin-soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wax 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wax | wax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 swans | compound |
| 2 | swans | swan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 floating | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 floating | aux |
| 4 | floating | float | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADV | _ | 4 floating | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 reflecting | cc |
| 7 | reflecting | reflect | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 floating | conj |
| 8 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 reflecting | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 reflecting | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 floating | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | float | past · progressive | Wax swans | about property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reflect | gerund | Wax swans not said here | swans = swan | castle | tree rules |
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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