The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 30

And the dragon answered: “I am waiting for you, O prince”; and the next minute he reared himself out of the water, huge and horrible to see.

Who acts: dragon, next minute · What happens: answer, wait, rear, see · To what, where: O prince, dragon, water · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dragon, next minute), 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	_	4 answered	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dragon	det
3	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 answered	nsubj
4	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 answered	punct
6	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 waiting	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 waiting	nsubj
8	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 waiting	aux
9	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 answered	ccomp
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 you	case
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 waiting	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 prince	punct
13	O	O	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 prince	compound
14	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 waiting	obl
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 waiting	punct
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 reared	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 reared	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 minute	det
19	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 minute	amod
20	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 reared	nsubj
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 reared	nsubj
22	reared	rear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 answered	conj
23	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 reared	obj
24	out	out	ADP	_	27 water	case
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 water	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 water	det
27	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 reared	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 huge	punct
29	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 water	amod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 horrible	cc
31	horrible	horrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 huge	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 see	mark
33	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 horrible	xcomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the dragon				tree rules
2	wait in a quote	present · progressive	the dragon = dragon	O prince		for you	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	rear	past	the next minute	dragon	the water		vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
4	see	to-infinitive	the next minute not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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