The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 96
At this the dragon grew rather frightened, but in a moment had recollected his eighteen heads, and was bold again.
What happens: grow, recollect, be · To what, where: eighteen heads
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: 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 | 5 grew | obl |
| 5 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 7 frightened | advmod |
| 7 | frightened | frightened | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 grew | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 recollected | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 recollected | cc |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 moment | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 moment | det |
| 12 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 recollected | obl |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 recollected | aux |
| 14 | recollected | recollect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 grew | conj |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 heads | nmod:poss |
| 16 | eighteen | eighteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 heads | nummod |
| 17 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 recollected | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 bold | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 bold | cc |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 bold | cop |
| 21 | bold | bold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 grew | parataxis |
| 22 | again | again | ADV | _ | 21 bold | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | at this dragon; frightened property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at dragon=Location | |||||
| 2 | recollect | past · perfect | dragon's eighteen heads | moment | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent head=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | again | bold property | 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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