The Green Fairy Book, The Magic Swan, sentence 66
Then the Princess felt moved to stroke the swan, at the same time admiring its plumage.
Who acts: Princess, same time · What happens: feel, move, stroke, admire · To what, where: swan, plumage
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 (Princess, same time), 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 felt | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Princess | det |
| 3 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 felt | nsubj |
| 4 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | moved | move | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 felt | xcomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 stroke | mark |
| 7 | stroke | stroke | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 moved | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 swan | det |
| 9 | swan | swan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stroke | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 time | punct |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 time | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 time | det |
| 13 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 time | amod |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stroke | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | admiring | admire | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 time | acl |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 plumage | nmod:poss |
| 17 | plumage | plumage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 admiring | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | the Princess | then | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | move | participle | the Princess not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | stroke | to-infinitive | the Princess not said here | the swan | time | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swan=Experiencer | |||
| 4 | admire | gerund | the same time not said here | merriment's plumage | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer plumage=Stimulus |
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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