The Green Fairy Book, The Magic Swan, sentence 27
‘Pull one out then,’ said Peter kindly, and the youth seized one from the bird’s tail; instantly the swan screamed, and Peter called out, ‘Swan, hold fast,’ and do what he could the poor youth couldn’t get his hand away.
Who acts: Peter, youth, swan · What happens: pull out, say, seize, scream, call out, hold · To what, where: one, tail, Peter, hand · 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 (Peter, youth, swan), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Pull | punct |
| 2 | Pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 Pull | obj |
| 4 | out | out | ADV | _ | 2 Pull | advmod |
| 5 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 Pull | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Pull | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Pull | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 8 said | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 seized | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 seized | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 youth | det |
| 14 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 seized | nsubj |
| 15 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 seized | obj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 tail | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 bird | det |
| 19 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 tail | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 bird | case |
| 21 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 seized | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 screamed | punct |
| 23 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 26 screamed | advmod |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 swan | det |
| 25 | swan | swan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 screamed | nsubj |
| 26 | screamed | scream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | parataxis |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 called | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 called | cc |
| 29 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 called | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 screamed | ccomp |
| 31 | out | out | ADP | _ | 30 called | compound:prt |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 Swan | punct |
| 33 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 34 Swan | punct |
| 34 | Swan | swan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 screamed | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 hold | punct |
| 36 | hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 34 Swan | parataxis |
| 37 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 36 hold | advmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 hold | punct |
| 39 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 36 hold | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 do | cc |
| 41 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 hold | conj |
| 42 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 41 do | obj |
| 43 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 get | nsubj |
| 44 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 50 get | aux |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 youth | det |
| 46 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 youth | amod |
| 47 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 get | nsubj |
| 48 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 50 get | aux |
| 49 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 50 get | advmod |
| 50 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 what | acl:relcl |
| 51 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 52 hand | nmod:poss |
| 52 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 get | obj |
| 53 | away | away | ADV | _ | 50 get | advmod |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull out | infinitive | one | then | out property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Peter | kindly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | seize | past | the youth | one | the bird's tail | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent one=Theme from tail=Source | |||
| 4 | scream speech: express | past | the swan | instantly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | call out speech: assert | participle · passive | Peter | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 6 | hold | infinitive | fast property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | do | present | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||||
| 8 | not get away | could | Peter | Peter's hand | away 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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