The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 69

The fight lasted all day, and the prince's strength was well-nigh spent, when the dragon, thinking that the victory was won, opened his jaws to give a roar of triumph.

Who acts: fight, triumph · What happens: last, spend, think, win, open, give · To what, where: strength, victory, jaws, roar · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (fight, triumph), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fight	det
2	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lasted	nsubj
3	lasted	last	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 day	det
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lasted	obl:unmarked
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 spent	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 spent	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 prince	det
9	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 strength	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 prince	case
11	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 spent	nsubj:pass
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 spent	aux:pass
13	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 spent	advmod
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 well	punct
15	nigh	nigh	ADV	_	16 spent	advmod
16	spent	spend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 lasted	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 dragon	punct
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 dragon	advmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 dragon	det
20	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 spent	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 thinking	punct
22	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 spent	advcl
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 won	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 victory	det
25	victory	victory	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 won	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 won	aux:pass
27	won	win	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 thinking	ccomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 opened	punct
29	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lasted	conj
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 jaws	nmod:poss
31	jaws	jaw	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 opened	obj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 give	mark
33	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 opened	advcl
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 roar	det
35	roar	roar	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 give	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 triumph	case
37	triumph	triumph	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 roar	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lasted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	last	past	the fight		day		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
2	spend	past · passive		the prince's strength		the dragon obl; nigh, well property	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset
3	think speech: other	gerund					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	win	past · passive		the victory			vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
5	open	past	the fight not said here	victory's jaws			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location jaw=Theme
6	give	to-infinitive	the fight not said here	a roar of triumph			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roar=Theme
7	roar		triumph				nom roar «event intransitive»: of=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 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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