The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 108
Opening his mouth to its very widest, he gave an awful roar; but the other dragon only roared back.
Who acts: dragon, other dragon · What happens: open, give, roar back · To what, where: mouth, widest, awful roar
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, other 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 | Opening | open | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 gave | advcl |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 3 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Opening | obj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 widest | case |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 widest | nmod:poss |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 widest | advmod |
| 7 | widest | wide | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 1 Opening | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Opening | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 gave | nsubj |
| 10 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 roar | det |
| 12 | awful | awful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 roar | amod |
| 13 | roar | roar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gave | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 roared | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 roared | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 dragon | det |
| 17 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 dragon | amod |
| 18 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 roared | nsubj |
| 19 | only | only | ADV | _ | 20 roared | advmod |
| 20 | roared | roar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 gave | conj |
| 21 | back | back | ADV | _ | 20 roared | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | gerund | dragon not said here | dragon's mouth | mouth's widest | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent mouth=Patient to wide=Recipient | |||
| 2 | give | past | dragon | a awful roar | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roar=Theme | ||||
| 3 | roar back | past | the other dragon | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
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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