The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 73
At this the dragon, with a mighty roar, rushed upon Paul, but he sprang on one side, and with a swinging blow cut off two of the other heads.
Who acts: Paul, swinging blow · What happens: rush, spring, swing, cut off · To what, where: mighty roar, Paul, one side, two
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 (Paul, swinging blow), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 dragon | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 dragon | det |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 dragon | det |
| 4 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 roar | punct |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 roar | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 roar | det |
| 8 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 roar | amod |
| 9 | roar | roar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dragon | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 rushed | punct |
| 11 | rushed | rush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 roar | acl |
| 12 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 13 Paul | case |
| 13 | Paul | Paul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 rushed | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sprang | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 sprang | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 sprang | nsubj |
| 17 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 rushed | conj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 side | case |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 side | nummod |
| 20 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sprang | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 blow | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 blow | cc |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 blow | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 blow | det |
| 25 | swinging | swing | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 blow | amod |
| 26 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dragon | conj |
| 27 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 blow | acl |
| 28 | off | off | ADP | _ | 27 cut | compound:prt |
| 29 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 cut | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 heads | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 heads | det |
| 32 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 heads | amod |
| 33 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 two | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dragon | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush | participle | a mighty roar not said here | Paul | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon paul=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | spring | past | Paul | one side | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | swing | gerund | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||||
| 4 | cut off | participle | a swinging blow not said here | two of the other heads | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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