The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 4
Again they clasped each other tight round the body and fought till it was noon, and when the sun was at its hottest, the dragon gasped:
Who acts: they, body, sun, hottest · What happens: clasp, fight, be, gasp
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 (they, body, sun, hottest), 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 | Again | again | ADV | _ | 3 clasped | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 clasped | nsubj |
| 3 | clasped | clasp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 tight | nsubj |
| 5 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 tight | amod |
| 6 | tight | tight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 clasped | ccomp |
| 7 | round | round | ADP | _ | 9 body | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 body | det |
| 9 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tight | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 fought | cc |
| 11 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 clasped | conj |
| 12 | till | till | ADP | _ | 15 noon | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 noon | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 noon | cop |
| 15 | noon | noon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fought | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 gasped | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 gasped | cc |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 hottest | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sun | det |
| 20 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 hottest | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 hottest | cop |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 hottest | case |
| 23 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 hottest | nmod:poss |
| 24 | hottest | hot | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 28 gasped | nsubj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 gasped | punct |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 dragon | det |
| 27 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 gasped | nsubj |
| 28 | gasped | gasp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 clasped | conj |
| 29 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 28 gasped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clasp | past | they | again | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | fight | past | they not said here | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | body | till noon | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | past | the sun | hot property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | gasp | past | sun's hottest | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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.
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