The Green Fairy Book, The Magic Swan, sentence 48
So much annoyed was he that he seized the clown by the hand and tried to tear him away, in order to hand him over to the police.
Who acts: clown · What happens: be, seize, try, tear away, hand over · To what, where: clown, police
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), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 annoyed | advmod |
| 2 | much | much | ADV | _ | 3 annoyed | advmod |
| 3 | annoyed | annoyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 he | cop |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 annoyed | nsubj |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 seized | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 seized | nsubj |
| 8 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 annoyed | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 clown | det |
| 10 | clown | clown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seized | obj |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 hand | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hand | det |
| 13 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seized | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 tried | cc |
| 15 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 seized | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 tear | mark |
| 17 | tear | tear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 tried | xcomp |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 tear | obj |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 17 tear | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 hand | punct |
| 21 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 24 hand | mark |
| 22 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 in | fixed |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 hand | mark |
| 24 | hand | hand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 tear | conj |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 hand | obj |
| 26 | over | over | ADP | _ | 24 hand | compound:prt |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 police | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 police | det |
| 29 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 hand | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 annoyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | clown | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | seize | past | clown | the clown | by the hand | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clown=Theme | |||
| 3 | try | past | clown not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | tear away not said to happen | to-infinitive | clown not said here | clown | away property | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location he=Theme | |||
| 5 | hand over | to-infinitive | clown not said here | clown | the police | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to police=Destination |
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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