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title: ‘Swan, hold fast,’ called out Peter, and the girl was caught also. — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Swan, hold fast,’ called out Peter, and the girl was caught also. Who acts: Swan. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Swan, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Magic Swan, sentence 31

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‘Swan, hold fast,’ called out Peter, and the girl was caught also.

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**Who acts:** Swan · **What happens:** hold, call out, catch · **To what, where:** girl

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7277:23:31
# text = ‘Swan, hold fast,’ called out Peter, and the girl was caught also.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Swan	swan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’	'	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
17	also	also	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | infinitive | Swan |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **call out** *speech: assert* | participle | Swan *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **catch** | past · passive |  | the girl |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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.

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**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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