The Green Fairy Book, The Magic Swan, sentence 39
He opened his eyes wide with amazement when he saw the remarkable trio fastened on to the swan’s tail.
Who acts: circus · What happens: open, see, fasten on · To what, where: eyes, remarkable trio
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 (circus), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 opened | nsubj |
| 2 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 4 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 opened | obj |
| 5 | wide | wide | ADV | _ | 2 opened | advmod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 amazement | case |
| 7 | amazement | amazement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 opened | obl |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 saw | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 saw | nsubj |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 opened | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 trio | det |
| 12 | remarkable | remarkable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 trio | amod |
| 13 | trio | trio | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saw | obj |
| 14 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 trio | acl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 fastened | compound:prt |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 tail | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 swan | det |
| 18 | swan | swan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tail | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 swan | case |
| 20 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fastened | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | circus | circus's eyes | with amazement; wide property | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent eye=Patient with amazement=Instrument | |||
| 2 | see | past | circus | the remarkable trio | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer trio=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | fasten on | participle | the remarkable trio not said here | to the swan's tail | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to tail=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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