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The Green Fairy Book, The Magic Swan, sentence 29

When she saw the poor boy fastened to the swan she felt so sorry for him that she stretched out her hand to free him.

Who acts: girl, poor boy · What happens: see, fasten, feel, stretch out · To what, where: hand

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 (girl, poor boy), 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

advmodnsubjadvcldetamodnsubjcasedetoblnsubjccompadvmodxcompcaseoblmarknsubjadvclcompound:prtnmod:possobjmarkconjnsubjpunctrootWhenADVshePRONsawVERBtheDETpoorADJboyNOUNfastenedVERBtoADPtheDETswanNOUNshePRONfeltVERBsoADVsorryADJforADPhimPRONthatSCONJshePRONstretchedVERBoutADPherPRONhandNOUNtoPARTfreeADJhimPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhenwhenADVPronType=Int3 sawadvmod
2sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 sawnsubj
3sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 fastenedadvcl
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 boydet
5poorpoorADJDegree=Pos6 boyamod
6boyboyNOUNNumber=Sing7 fastenednsubj
7fastenedfastenVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
8totoADP_10 swancase
9thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 swandet
10swanswanNOUNNumber=Sing12 feltobl
11sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs12 feltnsubj
12feltfeelVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 fastenedccomp
13sosoADV_14 sorryadvmod
14sorrysorryADJDegree=Pos12 feltxcomp
15forforADP_16 himcase
16himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs14 sorryobl
17thatthatSCONJ_19 stretchedmark
18sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs19 stretchednsubj
19stretchedstretchVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin12 feltadvcl
20outoutADP_19 stretchedcompound:prt
21herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs22 handnmod:poss
22handhandNOUNNumber=Sing19 stretchedobj
23totoPART_24 freemark
24freefreeADJDegree=Pos19 stretchedconj
25himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs24 freensubj
26..PUNCT_7 fastenedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1seepastgirlvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2fastenpastthe poor boytree rules
3feelpastgirlto the swan; sorry propertyvn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to swan=Experiencer
4stretch outpastgirlgirl's handvn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hand=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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