The Green Fairy Book, The Magic Swan, sentence 49
Then the bird screamed, and Peter called out, ‘Swan, hold fast,’ and the dignified Mayor shared the fate of his predecessors.
Who acts: bird, Peter, dignified Mayor · What happens: scream, call out, hold, dignify, share, fate · To what, where: Peter, fate, predecessors · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (bird, Peter, dignified Mayor), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 screamed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bird | det |
| 3 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 screamed | nsubj |
| 4 | screamed | scream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 hold | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 hold | cc |
| 7 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 hold | nsubj |
| 8 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 Peter | acl |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 called | compound:prt |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Swan | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 Swan | punct |
| 12 | Swan | swan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Peter | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Peter | punct |
| 14 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 screamed | ccomp |
| 15 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 hold | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 hold | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 hold | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 shared | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Mayor | det |
| 20 | dignified | dignify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 Mayor | amod |
| 21 | Mayor | Mayor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 shared | nsubj |
| 22 | shared | share | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 screamed | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 fate | det |
| 24 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 shared | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 predecessors | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 predecessors | nmod:poss |
| 27 | predecessors | predecessor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 fate | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 screamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scream speech: express | past | the bird | then | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | call out speech: assert | participle | Peter and Swan not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | hold | infinitive | Peter and Swan | fast property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | dignify | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | share | past | the dignified Mayor | the fate of Mayor's predecessors | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | fate | Mayor's predecessors | nom fate «event 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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