The Green Fairy Book, The Magic Swan, sentence 15
Underneath it you will find a man lying asleep, and a beautiful large swan will be fastened to the tree close to him.
Who acts: tree, man · What happens: find, lie, fasten · To what, where: man, beautiful large swan
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 (tree, man), 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 | Underneath | underneath | SCONJ | _ | 5 find | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 find | nsubj |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 find | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 find | aux |
| 5 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 find | obj |
| 8 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 man | acl |
| 9 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 lying | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 fastened | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 fastened | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 swan | det |
| 13 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 swan | amod |
| 14 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 swan | amod |
| 15 | swan | swan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fastened | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 fastened | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 fastened | aux:pass |
| 18 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 find | conj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 tree | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 tree | det |
| 21 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fastened | obl |
| 22 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 tree | amod |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 close | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | future | tree | a man | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Topic | ||||
| 2 | lie | gerund | a man not said here | asleep property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | fasten | future · passive | a beautiful large swan | to the tree | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to tree=Co-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 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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