The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 35

The prince followed and entered the mill, but stopped in terror by the door, for, instead of a hare, before him stood a dragon, breathing fire and flame.

Who acts: prince, hare · What happens: follow, enter, stop, stand, breathe · To what, where: mill, terror, dragon, fire

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, hare), 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 prince	det
2	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 followed	nsubj
3	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 entered	cc
5	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 followed	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mill	det
7	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 entered	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 stopped	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 stopped	cc
10	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 followed	parataxis
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 terror	case
12	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stopped	obl
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 door	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 door	det
15	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stopped	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 hare	punct
17	for	for	ADP	_	22 hare	case
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 hare	punct
19	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	22 hare	case
20	of	of	ADP	_	19 instead	fixed
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 hare	det
22	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stopped	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 stood	punct
24	before	before	SCONJ	_	26 stood	mark
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 stood	nsubj
26	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 stopped	conj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 dragon	det
28	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 stood	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 breathing	punct
30	breathing	breathe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 stood	advcl
31	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 breathing	obj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 flame	cc
33	flame	flame	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 fire	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 followed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	follow	past	the prince				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	enter	past	the prince not said here	the mill			vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mill=Destination
3	stop	past			terror	by the door; for a hare	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in terror=Location
4	stand	past	hare	a dragon			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dragon=Stimulus
5	breathe	gerund	hare not said here	fire and flame			vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme

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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