The Green Fairy Book, The Magic Swan, sentence 18
But as soon as the swan feels as much as a finger on it, it will scream out, and then you must say, “Swan, hold fast.”
Who acts: swan, you · What happens: feel, scream out, say, hold · To what, where: much, Swan · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (swan, you), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 feels | cc |
| 2 | as | as | ADV | _ | 3 soon | advmod |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 feels | advmod |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 feels | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 swan | det |
| 6 | swan | swan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 feels | nsubj |
| 7 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | as | as | ADV | _ | 9 much | advmod |
| 9 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 feels | obj |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 finger | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 finger | det |
| 12 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 much | nmod |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 finger | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 scream | punct |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 scream | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 scream | aux |
| 18 | scream | scream | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 feels | conj |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 scream | compound:prt |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 say | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 say | cc |
| 22 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 say | advmod |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 say | nsubj |
| 24 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 say | aux |
| 25 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 scream | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Swan | punct |
| 27 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 Swan | punct |
| 28 | Swan | swan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 say | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 hold | punct |
| 30 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 scream | conj |
| 31 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 30 hold | advmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 feels | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 feels | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | present | the swan | much | as a finger on finger; soon property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Theme | |||
| 2 | scream out speech: express | future | swan | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | must | you | Swan | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent swan=Topic | |||
| 4 | hold in a quote | infinitive | swan not said here | fast property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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