The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 63

But it was the dragon and nothing else, whose six wings were carrying him forward as fast as might be, considering his great weight and the length of his tail, which had fifty twists and a half.

Who acts: body, six wings, tail · What happens: be, carry, consider, have · To what, where: dragon, king, great weight, fifty twists

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (body, six wings, tail), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 dragon	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dragon	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dragon	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dragon	det
5	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 nothing	cc
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 dragon	conj
8	else	else	ADV	_	7 nothing	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 carrying	punct
10	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	12 wings	nmod:poss
11	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 wings	nummod
12	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 carrying	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 carrying	aux
14	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 dragon	advcl
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 carrying	obj
16	forward	forward	ADV	_	14 carrying	advmod
17	as	as	ADV	_	18 fast	advmod
18	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 carrying	advmod
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 be	mark
20	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 be	aux
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 fast	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 considering	punct
23	considering	consider	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 carrying	conj
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 weight	nmod:poss
25	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 weight	amod
26	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 considering	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 length	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 length	det
29	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 weight	conj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 tail	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 tail	nmod:poss
32	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 length	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 had	punct
34	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 had	nsubj
35	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 tail	acl:relcl
36	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 twists	nummod
37	twists	twist	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 had	obj
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 half	cc
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 half	det
40	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	37 twists	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 dragon	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	body	the dragon		tree rules
2	carry	past · progressive	six wings	king	fast, forward property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	consider	gerund	six wings not said here	king's great weight and the length of king's tail		vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent weight=Attribute
4	have	past	king's tail	fifty twists and a half		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twist=Patient

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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