The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 109
This was too much, and with another roar which made the princess shake in her shoes, he flung himself upon his foe.
Who acts: This, roar, dragon · What happens: be, make, fling · To what, where: princess shake, shoes, dragon, foe
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 (This, roar, 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 much | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 much | cop |
| 3 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 much | advmod |
| 4 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 flung | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 flung | cc |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 roar | case |
| 8 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 roar | det |
| 9 | roar | roar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 flung | obl |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 made | nsubj |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 roar | acl:relcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 shake | det |
| 13 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shake | compound |
| 14 | shake | shake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 shoes | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 shoes | nmod:poss |
| 17 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 shake | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 roar | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 flung | nsubj |
| 20 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 much | advcl |
| 21 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 flung | obj |
| 22 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 24 foe | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 foe | nmod:poss |
| 24 | foe | foe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 flung | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 much | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | This | much property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | past | another roar | the princess shake | princess's shoes | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset shake=Product | |||
| 3 | fling | past | dragon | dragon | dragon's foe | with another roar | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme upon foe=Destination |
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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