The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 38
Then the prince swung the dragon straight up into the clouds, and when he touched the earth again, he broke into a thousand pieces.
Who acts: prince · What happens: swing, touch, break · To what, where: dragon, clouds, earth, thousand pieces
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 (prince), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 swung | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 swung | nsubj |
| 4 | swung | swing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 dragon | det |
| 6 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 swung | obj |
| 7 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 8 up | advmod |
| 8 | up | up | ADV | _ | 4 swung | advmod |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 clouds | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 clouds | det |
| 11 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 swung | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 touched | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 touched | cc |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 touched | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 touched | nsubj |
| 16 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 swung | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 earth | det |
| 18 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 touched | obj |
| 19 | again | again | ADV | _ | 16 touched | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 broke | punct |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 broke | nsubj |
| 22 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 swung | conj |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 pieces | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 thousand | det |
| 25 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 pieces | nummod |
| 26 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 broke | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 swung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swing | past | the prince | the dragon | the clouds | then | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent dragon=Theme into cloud=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | touch | past | prince | the earth | again | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme earth=Co-Theme | |||
| 3 | break | past | prince | into thousand pieces result | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into piece=Result |
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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