The Green Fairy Book, The Magic Swan, sentence 46
‘Swan, hold fast,’ called out Peter, and the clown became the fourth of the party.
Who acts: Swan, clown · What happens: hold, call out, become · To what, where: fourth
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, clown), 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 | _ | 15 became | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 became | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 clown | det |
| 14 | clown | clown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 became | nsubj |
| 15 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hold | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 fourth | det |
| 17 | fourth | fourth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 became | xcomp |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 party | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 party | det |
| 20 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fourth | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | 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 | become | past | the clown | the fourth of the party | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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