The Green Fairy Book, The Magic Swan, sentence 54

But no sooner had she perceived the motley crowd fastened to the swan’s tail than she burst into a loud fit of laughter, in which she was joined by all her servants and ladies in waiting.

Who acts: fair, servants · What happens: perceive, fasten, burst, join · To what, where: motley crowd, loud fit, fair

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 (fair, servants), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 perceived	cc
2	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 sooner	det
3	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 perceived	advmod
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 perceived	aux
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 perceived	nsubj
6	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 crowd	det
8	motley	motley	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 crowd	amod
9	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 perceived	obj
10	fastened	fasten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 crowd	acl
11	to	to	ADP	_	15 tail	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 swan	det
13	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tail	nmod:poss
14	’s	's	PART	_	13 swan	case
15	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fastened	obl
16	than	than	SCONJ	_	18 burst	mark
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 burst	nsubj
18	burst	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 perceived	advcl
19	into	into	ADP	_	22 fit	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 fit	det
21	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 fit	amod
22	fit	fit	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 burst	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 laughter	case
24	laughter	laughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 fit	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 joined	punct
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 which	case
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 joined	obl
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 joined	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 joined	aux:pass
30	joined	join	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 burst	conj
31	by	by	ADP	_	34 servants	case
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 servants	det:predet
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 servants	nmod:poss
34	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 joined	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 ladies	cc
36	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 servants	conj
37	in	in	ADP	_	38 waiting	case
38	waiting	waiting	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 servants	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 perceived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	perceive	past	fair	the motley crowd		soon property	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer crowd=Stimulus
2	fasten	participle		the motley crowd not said here		to the swan's tail	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to tail=Co-Patient
3	burst	past	fair		a loud fit of laughter		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	join	past · passive	fair's servants in waiting and ladies	fair			vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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