The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 70

When he could see clearly he made out a mountain-like dragon whose heavy breast crushed the stones beneath it into putty.

Who acts: horse, like dragon · What happens: see, make out, crush · To what, where: stones, putty · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, 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 (horse, like 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 see	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 see	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	7 made	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 made	nsubj
7	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 see	ccomp
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 made	compound:prt
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 dragon	det
10	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 like	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 mountain	punct
12	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 dragon	amod
13	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 crushed	nsubj
14	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	16 breast	nmod:poss
15	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 breast	amod
16	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 crushed	nsubj
17	crushed	crush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 made	parataxis
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 stones	det
19	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 crushed	obj
20	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 crushed	obl
22	into	into	ADP	_	23 putty	case
23	putty	putty	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 crushed	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	could	horse			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	make out	past	horse		clearly property	vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer
3	crush	past	a like dragon	the stones	into putty result; beneath breast	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent stone=Patient into putty=Result

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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