The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 40
Into this the hare flew with the prince at his heels, when, lo! instead of the hare, there stood a dragon breathing fire and flame; and out shot a fiery tongue which coiled round the prince’s waist, and lifted him straight into the dragon’s mouth, and he was seen no more.
Who acts: fiery tongue · What happens: fly, stand, breathe, shoot, coil, lift · To what, where: heels, dragon, fire, fiery tongue, waist, mouth
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 (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 | Into | into | ADP | _ | 4 hare | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 hare | det |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hare | det |
| 4 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 flew | obl |
| 5 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 prince | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 prince | det |
| 8 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 flew | obl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 heels | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 heels | nmod:poss |
| 11 | heels | heel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 flew | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 when | punct |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 flew | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 lo | punct |
| 15 | lo | lo | INTJ | _ | 5 flew | conj |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 15 lo | punct |
| 17 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 20 hare | case |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 instead | fixed |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 hare | det |
| 20 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lo | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 stood | punct |
| 22 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 23 stood | expl |
| 23 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 flew | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 dragon | det |
| 25 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 stood | obj |
| 26 | breathing | breathe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 stood | advcl |
| 27 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 breathing | obj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 flame | cc |
| 29 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 fire | conj |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 shot | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 shot | cc |
| 32 | out | out | ADV | _ | 33 shot | advmod |
| 33 | shot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 flew | conj |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 tongue | det |
| 35 | fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 tongue | amod |
| 36 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 shot | obj |
| 37 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 coiled | nsubj |
| 38 | coiled | coil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 tongue | acl:relcl |
| 39 | round | round | ADP | _ | 43 waist | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 prince | det |
| 41 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 waist | nmod:poss |
| 42 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 41 prince | case |
| 43 | waist | waist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 coiled | obl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 lifted | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 lifted | cc |
| 46 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 shot | conj |
| 47 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 lifted | obj |
| 48 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 53 mouth | advmod |
| 49 | into | into | ADP | _ | 53 mouth | case |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 dragon | det |
| 51 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 52 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 51 dragon | case |
| 53 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 lifted | obl |
| 54 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 58 seen | punct |
| 55 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 58 seen | cc |
| 56 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 58 seen | nsubj |
| 57 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 58 seen | aux:pass |
| 58 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 shot | advcl |
| 59 | no | no | ADV | _ | 60 more | advmod |
| 60 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 58 seen | obj |
| 61 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | hare's heels | into this hare; with the prince | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at heel=Location | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | a dragon | there | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dragon=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | breathe | gerund | fire and flame | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme | |||||
| 4 | shoot | past | a fiery tongue | out property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme | ||||
| 5 | coil | past | a fiery tongue | the prince's waist | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round waist=Destination | ||||
| 6 | lift | past | Dragon | the dragon's mouth | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into mouth=Destination | ||||
| 7 | 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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