The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 61
The colt, who was accustomed to it, plunged into the water without hesitation; but as soon as the dragons caught sight of Peronnik they approached from all parts of the lake in order to devour him.
Who acts: colt, dragons · What happens: accustom, plunge, catch, approach, devour, sight · To what, where: colt, lake, water, sight, parts, Peronnik
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (colt, dragons), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 colt | det |
| 2 | colt | colt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 caught | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 accustomed | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 accustomed | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 accustomed | aux:pass |
| 6 | accustomed | accustom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 colt | acl:relcl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 accustomed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 plunged | punct |
| 10 | plunged | plunge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 accustomed | conj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 water | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 water | det |
| 13 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 plunged | obl |
| 14 | without | without | ADP | _ | 15 hesitation | case |
| 15 | hesitation | hesitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 plunged | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 caught | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 caught | cc |
| 18 | as | as | ADV | _ | 19 soon | advmod |
| 19 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 caught | advmod |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 caught | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 dragons | det |
| 22 | dragons | dragon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 caught | nsubj |
| 23 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 caught | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Peronnik | case |
| 26 | Peronnik | Peronnik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 sight | nmod |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 approached | nsubj |
| 28 | approached | approach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 caught | conj |
| 29 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 parts | case |
| 30 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 parts | det |
| 31 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 approached | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 lake | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 lake | det |
| 34 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 parts | nmod |
| 35 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 38 devour | mark |
| 36 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 in | fixed |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 devour | mark |
| 38 | devour | devour | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 lake | acl |
| 39 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 devour | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accustom | past · passive | the colt | lake | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | plunge | participle | the water | without hesitation | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into water=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | catch | past | the colt | sight of Peronnik | soon property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | |||
| 4 | approach | past | dragons = dragon | all parts of the lake | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from part=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | devour | to-infinitive | dragons = dragon not said here | colt | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 6 | sight | Peronnik | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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