The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 33
Serpents were there also, and dragons, and beasts of strange shapes, with horns in places where never saw I horns before.
Who acts: Serpents, I · What happens: be, not see, horn
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Serpents, I), 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 | Serpents | serpent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 there | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 there | cop |
| 3 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 4 | also | also | ADV | _ | 3 there | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 dragons | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 dragons | cc |
| 7 | dragons | dragon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 there | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 beasts | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 beasts | cc |
| 10 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 there | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 shapes | case |
| 12 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 shapes | amod |
| 13 | shapes | shape | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 beasts | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 horns | punct |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 horns | case |
| 16 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 shapes | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 places | case |
| 18 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 horns | nmod |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 saw | advmod |
| 20 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 21 saw | advmod |
| 21 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 places | acl:relcl |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 horns | nsubj |
| 23 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 saw | obj |
| 24 | before | before | ADV | _ | 23 horns | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 there | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Serpents | dragons obl; there property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not see | past | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | horn | I | before property | 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 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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