The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 107
He lashed his tail, and rolled his red eyes, and the dragon opposite was no whit behind him.
Who acts: dragon, dragon opposite · What happens: lash, roll, be · To what, where: tail, red eyes, whit
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 (dragon, dragon opposite), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 lashed | nsubj |
| 2 | lashed | lash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 tail | nmod:poss |
| 4 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lashed | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 rolled | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 rolled | cc |
| 7 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lashed | parataxis |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 9 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 eyes | amod |
| 10 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 rolled | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 whit | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 whit | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 opposite | det |
| 14 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 opposite | compound |
| 15 | opposite | opposite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 whit | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 whit | cop |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 whit | det |
| 18 | whit | whit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rolled | obl |
| 19 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 whit | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lashed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lash | past | dragon | dragon's tail | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient | ||||
| 2 | roll | past | dragon's red eyes | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | the dragon opposite | no whit | behind dragon | tree rules |
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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