Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 75
Now, round the dragon's house was a large meadow as far as the eye could reach.
Who acts: house, eye · What happens: be, reach
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Magic Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (house, eye), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 meadow | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | round | round | ADP | _ | 11 meadow | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 dragon | det |
| 5 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 house | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 dragon | case |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 meadow | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 meadow | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 meadow | det |
| 10 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 meadow | amod |
| 11 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | as | as | ADV | _ | 13 far | advmod |
| 13 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 meadow | advmod |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 reach | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 eye | det |
| 16 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 reach | nsubj |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 reach | aux |
| 18 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 far | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 meadow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the dragon's house | now | round a large meadow; far property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | reach | could | the eye | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «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: «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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