The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 105

Neither of these things occurred, but, instead, the dragon stopped short with surprise and rage when he saw a monster before him as big and strong as himself.

Who acts: Neither, dragon · What happens: occur, stop, see · To what, where: monster

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Neither, dragon), 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	Neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	5 occurred	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 things	case
3	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 things	det
4	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Neither	nmod
5	occurred	occur	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 stopped	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 stopped	cc
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 but	punct
9	instead	instead	ADV	_	13 stopped	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 instead	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 dragon	det
12	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stopped	nsubj
13	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 occurred	parataxis
14	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 stopped	xcomp
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 surprise	case
16	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 short	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 rage	cc
18	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 surprise	conj
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 saw	advmod
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 saw	nsubj
21	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 stopped	advcl
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 monster	det
23	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 saw	obj
24	before	before	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 saw	obl
26	as	as	ADV	_	27 big	advmod
27	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 saw	parataxis
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 strong	cc
29	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 big	conj
30	as	as	ADP	_	31 himself	case
31	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	27 big	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 occurred	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	occur	participle	Neither				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stop	past	the dragon			instead, short property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	see	past	dragon	a monster	before nurse		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer monster=Stimulus

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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