The Green Fairy Book, The Magic Swan, sentence 42
‘This wench has got so tight hold of me that I feel as if I were glued to her.
Who acts: wench, I · What happens: get, feel, glue, hold · To what, where: tight hold, I, wench, me
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 (wench, I), 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 | _ | 5 got | punct |
| 2 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 wench | det |
| 3 | wench | wench | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | aux |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 tight | advmod |
| 7 | tight | tight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hold | amod |
| 8 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 me | case |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 hold | nmod |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 feel | mark |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 feel | nsubj |
| 13 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | advcl |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 glued | mark |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 glued | mark |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 glued | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 glued | aux:pass |
| 18 | glued | glue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 feel | ccomp |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 her | case |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 glued | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present · perfect | this wench | tight hold of me | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hold=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | feel | present | I | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | glue a condition, not said to happen | past · passive | I | wench | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to she=Co-Patient | ||||
| 4 | hold | me | nom hold «act transitive»: of=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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