The Green Fairy Book, The Magic Swan, sentence 69
But the swan flew up into the air, and vanished in the blue horizon.
Who acts: swan · What happens: fly up, vanish · To what, where: air, blue horizon
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 (swan), 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 | _ | 4 flew | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 swan | det |
| 3 | swan | swan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flew | nsubj |
| 4 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 flew | compound:prt |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 air | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 air | det |
| 8 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flew | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 vanished | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 vanished | cc |
| 11 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 flew | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 horizon | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 horizon | det |
| 14 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 horizon | amod |
| 15 | horizon | horizon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 vanished | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly up | past | the swan | into the air result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into air=Result | ||||
| 2 | vanish | past | the swan not said here | the blue horizon | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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