The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 97

“Come on,” he cried, rearing himself up and preparing to dart all his heads at once at Paul.

Who acts: dragon · What happens: come on, cry, rear up, prepare, dart · To what, where: dragon, heads, Paul · 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 (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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
2	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 cried	parataxis
3	on	on	ADV	_	2 Come	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cried	nsubj
7	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 rearing	punct
9	rearing	rear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 cried	advcl
10	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 rearing	obj
11	up	up	ADP	_	9 rearing	compound:prt
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 preparing	cc
13	preparing	prepare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 rearing	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 dart	mark
15	dart	dart	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 preparing	xcomp
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 heads	det:predet
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 heads	nmod:poss
18	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 dart	obj
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 once	case
20	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	15 dart	obl
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 Paul	case
22	Paul	Paul	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 dart	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	come on in a quote	infinitive				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cry speech: express	past	dragon			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	rear up	gerund	dragon not said here	dragon		vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
4	prepare	gerund	dragon not said here			vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute
5	dart not said to happen	to-infinitive	dragon not said here	dragon's heads	Paul	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent head=Theme at once=Trajectory

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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