The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 70
She swam round the ship for some time, and then swung herself gracefully on board, in order to examine the beautiful silken stuffs more closely.
Who acts: mermaid · What happens: swim, swing, examine · To what, where: ship, mermaid, board, beautiful silken stuffs
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Mermaid. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mermaid), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 swam | nsubj |
| 2 | swam | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | round | round | ADP | _ | 5 ship | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ship | det |
| 5 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 swam | obl |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 time | case |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 time | det |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 swam | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 swung | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 swung | cc |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 swung | advmod |
| 12 | swung | swing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 swam | parataxis |
| 13 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 swung | obj |
| 14 | gracefully | gracefully | ADV | _ | 12 swung | advmod |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 board | case |
| 16 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 swung | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 examine | punct |
| 18 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 21 examine | mark |
| 19 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 in | fixed |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 examine | mark |
| 21 | examine | examine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 swung | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 stuffs | det |
| 23 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 stuffs | amod |
| 24 | silken | silken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 stuffs | amod |
| 25 | stuffs | stuff | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 examine | obj |
| 26 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 27 closely | advmod |
| 27 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 21 examine | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 swam | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swim | past | mermaid | the ship | time | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round ship=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | swing | past | mermaid | board | then | gracefully property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme on board=Location | ||
| 3 | examine | to-infinitive | the beautiful silken stuffs | closely property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stuff=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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