The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 36

At this fearful sight the prince turned to fly, but a fiery tongue coiled round his waist, and drew him into the dragon’s mouth, and he was seen no more.

Who acts: prince, fiery tongue · What happens: turn, fly, coil, draw, see · To what, where: fearful sight, waist, tongue, mouth, Dragon

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, fiery tongue), 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 sight	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 sight	det
3	fearful	fearful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sight	amod
4	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 turned	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 prince	det
6	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 turned	nsubj
7	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 fly	mark
9	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 turned	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 coiled	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 coiled	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 tongue	det
13	fiery	fiery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 tongue	amod
14	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 coiled	nsubj
15	coiled	coil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 turned	conj
16	round	round	ADP	_	18 waist	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 waist	nmod:poss
18	waist	waist	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 coiled	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 drew	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 drew	cc
21	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 turned	conj
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 drew	obj
23	into	into	ADP	_	27 mouth	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 dragon	det
25	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 mouth	nmod:poss
26	’s	's	PART	_	25 dragon	case
27	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 drew	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 seen	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 seen	cc
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 seen	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 seen	aux:pass
32	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 turned	conj
33	no	no	ADV	_	34 more	advmod
34	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	32 seen	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	turn	past	the prince		this fearful sight		tree rules
2	fly	to-infinitive	the prince not said here				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	coil	participle	a fiery tongue		tongue's waist		vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round waist=Destination
4	draw	past	the prince not said here	tongue		into the dragon's mouth result	vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Patient into mouth=Result
5	see	past · passive		Dragon			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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