The Green Fairy Book, The Magic Swan, sentence 44
Without a moment’s hesitation the clown grasped the black outstretched hand.
Who acts: clown, moment · What happens: grasp, hesitate · To what, where: black outstretched 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 (clown, moment), 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 | Without | without | ADP | _ | 5 hesitation | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hesitation | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 moment | case |
| 5 | hesitation | hesitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 grasped | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 clown | det |
| 7 | clown | clown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 grasped | nsubj |
| 8 | grasped | grasp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hand | det |
| 10 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 hand | amod |
| 11 | outstretched | outstretched | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 hand | amod |
| 12 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 grasped | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 grasped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grasp | past | the clown | the black outstretched hand | without a moment's hesitation | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hand=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | hesitate | a moment | nom hesitation «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/23/44/