The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 75

When the maiden heard that the dragon was dead, she thanked her deliverer with tears in her eyes, but told him that her two younger sisters were in the power of dragons still fiercer and more horrible than this one.

Who acts: maiden, dragon, two younger sisters · What happens: hear, be, thank, tell · To what, where: deliverer, dragon, power · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (maiden, dragon, two younger sisters), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 heard	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 maiden	det
3	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	nsubj
4	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 thanked	advcl
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 dead	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dragon	det
7	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dead	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 dead	cop
9	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 heard	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 thanked	nsubj
12	thanked	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 deliverer	nmod:poss
14	deliverer	deliverer	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 thanked	obj
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 tears	case
16	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 thanked	obl
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 eyes	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 eyes	nmod:poss
19	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 tears	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 told	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 told	cc
22	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 thanked	conj
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 told	iobj
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 power	mark
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 sisters	nmod:poss
26	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 sisters	nummod
27	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	28 sisters	amod
28	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 power	nsubj
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 power	cop
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 power	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 power	det
32	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 told	ccomp
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 dragons	case
34	dragons	dragon	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 power	nmod
35	still	still	ADV	_	36 fiercer	advmod
36	fiercer	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	34 dragons	amod
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 horrible	cc
38	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	39 horrible	advmod
39	horrible	horrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 fiercer	conj
40	than	than	ADP	_	42 one	case
41	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	42 one	det
42	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 horrible	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 thanked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past	the maiden					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	the dragon				dead property	tree rules
3	thank speech: thank	past	maiden	maiden's deliverer			with tears in maiden's eyes	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deliverer=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	past	maiden not said here		dragon			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
5	is	past	maiden's two younger sisters			the power	of dragons	tree rules

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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