The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 87
The moment that Paul knew that this terrible dragon was no other than the dwarf whom he had tied to the tree, he longed more than ever to fly at his throat.
Who acts: Paul, terrible dragon, moment · What happens: know, be, tie, long, fly · To what, where: moment, more, throat · 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 (Paul, terrible dragon, moment), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 moment | det |
| 2 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 longed | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 knew | obj |
| 4 | Paul | Paul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 knew | nsubj |
| 5 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 moment | acl:relcl |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 other | mark |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 dragon | det |
| 8 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 dragon | amod |
| 9 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 other | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 other | cop |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 other | det |
| 12 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 knew | ccomp |
| 13 | than | than | ADP | _ | 15 dwarf | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 dwarf | det |
| 15 | dwarf | dwarf | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 other | obl |
| 16 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 tied | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 tied | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 tied | aux |
| 19 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 dwarf | acl:relcl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 tree | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 tree | det |
| 22 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tied | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 moment | punct |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 longed | nsubj |
| 25 | longed | long | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 26 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 25 longed | obj |
| 27 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 30 fly | mark |
| 28 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 30 fly | advmod |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 fly | mark |
| 30 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 more | advcl |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 33 throat | case |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 throat | nmod:poss |
| 33 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 fly | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 longed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | Paul | the moment | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | past | this terrible dragon | than the dwarf; other property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | tie | past · perfect · passive | to the tree | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to tree=Co-Patient | |||||
| 4 | long | past | the moment | more | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | fly | to-infinitive | the moment not said here | Paul's throat | ever | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at throat=Location |
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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