The Green Fairy Book, The Magic Swan, sentence 25

He walked on with the swan for some time, and came at last to a building-yard where some men were busily at work.

Who acts: Peter, men · What happens: walk on, come, be · To what, where: last, work

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, men), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 walked	nsubj
2	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADV	_	2 walked	advmod
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 swan	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 swan	det
6	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 walked	obl
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 time	case
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 time	det
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 walked	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 came	cc
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 walked	conj
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 last	case
14	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 came	obl
15	to	to	ADP	_	19 yard	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 yard	det
17	building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 yard	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 building	punct
19	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	obl
20	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	26 work	advmod
21	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	22 men	det
22	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 work	nsubj
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 work	cop
24	busily	busily	ADV	_	26 work	advmod
25	at	at	ADP	_	26 work	case
26	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 yard	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk on	past	Peter		time	with the swan	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	Peter not said here	last		to a building yard	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to yard=Initial_Location
3	is	past	some men	work		busily property	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 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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