The Green Fairy Book, The Magic Swan, sentence 36
‘Swan, hold fast,’ said Peter, and the black man was added to their number.
Who acts: Swan, Peter · What happens: hold, say, add · To what, where: black man · 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 (Swan, Peter), 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 | 8 said | ccomp |
| 5 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 hold | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 hold | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 hold | 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 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 added | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 added | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 13 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 man | amod |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 added | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 added | aux:pass |
| 16 | added | add | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 said | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 number | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 number | nmod:poss |
| 19 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 added | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | 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 | say speech: assert | past | Peter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | add speech: assert | past · passive | the black man | to captives's number | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to number=Co-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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