The Green Fairy Book, The Magic Swan, sentence 11
Peter was at a loss what to answer, for so far he had always thought that fortune would drop into his mouth like a ripe cherry.
Who acts: Peter, fortune · What happens: be, answer, think, drop · To what, where: loss, mouth
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Swan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peter, fortune), 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 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 loss | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 loss | cop |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 loss | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 loss | det |
| 5 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 answer | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 answer | mark |
| 8 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 loss | acl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 drop | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 thought | mark |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 far | advmod |
| 12 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 thought | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 thought | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 thought | aux |
| 15 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 16 thought | advmod |
| 16 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 drop | advcl |
| 17 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 fortune | det |
| 18 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 drop | nsubj |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 drop | aux |
| 20 | drop | drop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 answer | advcl |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 mouth | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 23 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 drop | obl |
| 24 | like | like | ADP | _ | 27 cherry | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 cherry | det |
| 26 | ripe | ripe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 cherry | amod |
| 27 | cherry | cherry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 drop | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 loss | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Peter | a loss | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | to-infinitive | a loss | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past · perfect | Peter | always, far property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | drop | would | that fortune | Peter's mouth | like a ripe cherry | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into mouth=Trajectory |
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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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