Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 1, sentence 35
Then the Dragon wouldn't wait any longer, but stuck out all his six heads and began to wriggle out of the cavern; but the Prince attacked him with his huge broadsword, a full fathom long, which the Lord had given him, and chopped off all the Dragon's six heads, and the rock fell upon the Dragon's body and crushed it to pieces.
Who acts: Dragon, Prince, Lord, rock · What happens: not wait, stick out, begin, wriggle, attack, give · To what, where: six heads, cavern, dinner, full fathom, Prince, body
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Two Princes, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dragon, Prince, Lord, rock), 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 | 6 wait | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Dragon | det |
| 3 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 wait | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 wait | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 wait | advmod |
| 6 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | any | any | ADV | _ | 8 longer | advmod |
| 8 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 wait | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 stuck | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 stuck | cc |
| 11 | stuck | stick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 wait | parataxis |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 stuck | compound:prt |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 heads | det:predet |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 heads | nmod:poss |
| 15 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 heads | nummod |
| 16 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 stuck | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 began | cc |
| 18 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 stuck | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 wriggle | mark |
| 20 | wriggle | wriggle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 began | xcomp |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 cavern | case |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 cavern | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 cavern | det |
| 24 | cavern | cavern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wriggle | obl |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 attacked | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 attacked | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Prince | det |
| 28 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 attacked | nsubj |
| 29 | attacked | attack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 wait | advcl |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 attacked | obj |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 broadsword | case |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 broadsword | nmod:poss |
| 33 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 broadsword | amod |
| 34 | broadsword | broadsword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 attacked | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 fathom | punct |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 fathom | det |
| 37 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 fathom | amod |
| 38 | fathom | fathom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 broadsword | conj |
| 39 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 38 fathom | advmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 given | punct |
| 41 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 45 given | obj |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 Lord | det |
| 43 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 given | nsubj |
| 44 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 given | aux |
| 45 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 38 fathom | advcl |
| 46 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 given | iobj |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 chopped | punct |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 chopped | cc |
| 49 | chopped | chop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 wait | parataxis |
| 50 | off | off | ADP | _ | 49 chopped | compound:prt |
| 51 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 56 heads | det:predet |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 Dragon | det |
| 53 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 56 heads | nmod:poss |
| 54 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 53 Dragon | case |
| 55 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 56 heads | nummod |
| 56 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 49 chopped | obj |
| 57 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 61 fell | punct |
| 58 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 61 fell | cc |
| 59 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 60 rock | det |
| 60 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 61 fell | nsubj |
| 61 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 chopped | parataxis |
| 62 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 66 body | case |
| 63 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 64 Dragon | det |
| 64 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 66 body | nmod:poss |
| 65 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 64 Dragon | case |
| 66 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 61 fell | obl |
| 67 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 68 crushed | cc |
| 68 | crushed | crush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 61 fell | conj |
| 69 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 68 crushed | obj |
| 70 | to | to | ADP | _ | 71 pieces | case |
| 71 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 68 crushed | obl |
| 72 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not wait | would | the Dragon | then | long property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | stick out | participle | Prince's six heads | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme | |||||
| 3 | begin | past | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 4 | wriggle | to-infinitive | the cavern | vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | attack | past | the Prince | dinner | with Prince's huge broadsword and a full fathom | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||
| 6 | give | past · perfect | the Lord | a full fathom | Prince | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient which=Theme | |||
| 7 | chop off | past | the Dragon's six heads | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | |||||
| 8 | fall | past | the rock | the Dragon's body | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon body=Location | ||||
| 9 | crush | past | the rock not said here | Dragon | to pieces result | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent it=Patient to 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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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