The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 67
In a little while the dragon came in, and all the long teeth in his six heads chattered with anger at the sight of the stranger.
Who acts: dragon · What happens: come in, chatter, sight · To what, where: long teeth, little, six heads, stranger
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dragon), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 little | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 little | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 came | obl |
| 4 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 7 came | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 dragon | det |
| 6 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADV | _ | 7 came | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 teeth | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 teeth | cc |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 teeth | det:predet |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 teeth | det |
| 13 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 teeth | amod |
| 14 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 came | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 heads | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 heads | nmod:poss |
| 17 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 heads | nummod |
| 18 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 teeth | nmod |
| 19 | chattered | chatter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 heads | acl |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 anger | case |
| 21 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 chattered | obl |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 sight | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 sight | det |
| 24 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 chattered | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 stranger | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 stranger | det |
| 27 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sight | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in | past | the dragon | all long teeth in dragon's six heads | a little | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in little=Location | |||
| 2 | chatter | participle | dragon's six heads not said here | with anger; at the sight of the stranger | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at sight=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | sight | the stranger | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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