The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 97
And suddenly the dragon’s hold loosened, and he fell back into the lake.
Who acts: hold, dragon · What happens: loosen, fall back, hold · To what, where: lake
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 (hold, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 loosened | cc |
| 2 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 7 loosened | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 dragon | det |
| 4 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hold | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 dragon | case |
| 6 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 loosened | nsubj |
| 7 | loosened | loosen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fell | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 fell | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 fell | nsubj |
| 11 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 loosened | conj |
| 12 | back | back | ADV | _ | 11 fell | advmod |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 lake | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 lake | det |
| 15 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fell | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 loosened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | loosen | past | the dragon's hold | suddenly property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | fall back | past | hold | into the lake result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into lake=Result | ||||
| 3 | hold | the dragon | nom hold «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/8/97/