The Green Fairy Book, The Magic Swan, sentence 24
Peter loosed the bird, and led it away with him without disturbing the bird’s master.
Who acts: Peter · What happens: loose, lead away, disturb · To what, where: bird, master
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), 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 | 2 loosed | nsubj |
| 2 | loosed | loose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bird | det |
| 4 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 loosed | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 led | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 led | cc |
| 7 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 loosed | conj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 led | obj |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 led | advmod |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 led | obl |
| 12 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 13 disturbing | mark |
| 13 | disturbing | disturb | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 led | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bird | det |
| 15 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 master | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 bird | case |
| 17 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 disturbing | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 loosed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | loose | past | Peter | the bird | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bird=Patient | ||||
| 2 | lead away | past | Peter not said here | bird | with Peter; away property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 3 | disturb | gerund | Peter not said here | the bird's master | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus master=Experiencer |
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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