The Green Fairy Book, The Magic Swan, sentence 65

Then he touched the youth, the girl, the sweep, the clown, the Mayor, and the Mayoress with his little stick, and they were all free again, and ran away home as if a fire were burning behind them; and their flight, as you may imagine, gave rise to renewed merriment.

Who acts: Peter, Mayoress, fire, you, flight · What happens: touch, be, run away, burn, imagine, give · To what, where: youth, rise, renewed merriment

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 (Peter, Mayoress, fire, you), 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	3 touched	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 touched	nsubj
3	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 youth	det
5	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 touched	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 girl	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 girl	det
8	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 youth	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sweep	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sweep	det
11	sweep	sweep	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 youth	appos
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 clown	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 clown	det
14	clown	clown	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sweep	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Mayor	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Mayor	det
17	Mayor	Mayor	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 sweep	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 free	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 free	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Mayoress	det
21	Mayoress	Mayoress	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 free	nsubj
22	with	with	ADP	_	25 stick	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 stick	nmod:poss
24	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 stick	amod
25	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 Mayoress	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 free	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 free	cc
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 free	nsubj
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 free	cop
30	all	all	ADV	_	31 free	advmod
31	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 touched	parataxis
32	again	again	ADV	_	31 free	advmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 ran	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 ran	cc
35	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 touched	conj
36	away	away	ADV	_	35 ran	advmod
37	home	home	ADV	_	35 ran	advmod
38	as	as	SCONJ	_	43 burning	mark
39	if	if	SCONJ	_	43 burning	mark
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 fire	det
41	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 burning	nsubj
42	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 burning	aux
43	burning	burn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 ran	advcl
44	behind	behind	ADP	_	45 them	case
45	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 burning	obl
46	;	;	PUNCT	_	49 flight	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 flight	cc
48	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 flight	nmod:poss
49	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 gave	nsubj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 imagine	punct
51	as	as	SCONJ	_	54 imagine	mark
52	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	54 imagine	nsubj
53	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	54 imagine	aux
54	imagine	imagine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 flight	conj
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 gave	punct
56	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 touched	parataxis
57	rise	rise	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 gave	obj
58	to	to	ADP	_	60 merriment	case
59	renewed	renew	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	60 merriment	amod
60	merriment	merriment	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 gave	obl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 touched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	touch	past	Peter	the youth and the girl		then		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme youth=Co-Theme
2	is	past	the Mayoress with Peter's little stick			again	all, free property	tree rules
3	run away	past	Peter not said here				away, home property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	burn	past · progressive	a fire				behind sticks = stick	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind they=Location
5	imagine	may	you					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
6	give	past	sticks's flight	rise	renewed merriment			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent rise=Theme to merriment=Recipient
7	renew	participle						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: 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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