The Green Fairy Book, The Magic Swan, sentence 26

They were all lost in admiration of the bird’s beautiful plumage, and one forward youth, who was covered with clay from head to foot, called out, ‘Oh, if I’d only one of those feathers how happy I should be!’

Who acts: I · What happens: lose, cover, call out, 'd, admire · To what, where: people, admiration, one forward youth, head, one, beautiful plumage

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 (I), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lost	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lost	aux:pass
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 lost	advmod
4	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 admiration	case
6	admiration	admiration	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lost	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	12 plumage	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bird	det
9	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 plumage	nmod:poss
10	’s	's	PART	_	9 bird	case
11	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 plumage	amod
12	plumage	plumage	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 admiration	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 youth	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 youth	cc
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 youth	nummod
16	forward	forward	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 youth	amod
17	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lost	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 covered	punct
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 covered	nsubj:pass
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 covered	aux:pass
21	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 youth	acl:relcl
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 clay	case
23	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 covered	obl
24	from	from	ADP	_	25 head	case
25	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 covered	obl
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 foot	case
27	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 covered	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 called	punct
29	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 youth	acl
30	out	out	ADP	_	29 called	compound:prt
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 ’d	punct
32	‘	'	PUNCT	_	37 ’d	punct
33	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	37 ’d	discourse
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 Oh	punct
35	if	if	SCONJ	_	37 ’d	mark
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 ’d	nsubj
37	’d	'd	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lost	parataxis
38	only	only	ADV	_	39 one	advmod
39	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 ’d	obj
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 feathers	case
41	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	42 feathers	det
42	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 one	nmod
43	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	44 happy	advmod
44	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 feathers	amod
45	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	47 be	nsubj
46	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 be	aux
47	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 one	acl:relcl
48	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 lost	punct
49	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 lost	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lose	past · passive		people	admiration of the bird's beautiful plumage	one forward youth obl; all property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	cover	past · passive		one forward youth	head	with clay; to foot	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with clay=Theme
3	call out speech: assert	participle		one forward youth not said here			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	'd a condition, not said to happen	present	I	one of that feathers			tree rules
5	admire			the bird's beautiful plumage			nom admiration «feeling transitive»: of=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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