The Green Fairy Book, The Magic Swan, sentence 31
‘Swan, hold fast,’ called out Peter, and the girl was caught also.
Who acts: Swan · What happens: hold, call out, catch · To what, where: girl
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 (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 | _ | 4 hold | punct |
| 2 | Swan | swan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hold | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Swan | punct |
| 4 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 hold | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 called | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | CCONJ | _ | 8 called | cc |
| 8 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 hold | conj |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 called | compound:prt |
| 10 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 called | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 caught | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 caught | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 girl | det |
| 14 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 caught | aux:pass |
| 16 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 hold | conj |
| 17 | also | also | ADV | _ | 16 caught | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | infinitive | Swan | fast property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | call out speech: assert | participle | Swan not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | catch | past · passive | the girl | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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