The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 2, sentence 94
Before he had time to defend himself my unhappy lover was swallowed up by the dragon.
Who acts: ugliest, dragon · What happens: have, defend, swallow up · To what, where: ugliest, unhappy lover
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ugliest, 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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 3 had | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 defend | mark |
| 6 | defend | defend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 had | xcomp |
| 7 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 defend | obj |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 lover | nmod:poss |
| 9 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lover | amod |
| 10 | lover | lover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 swallowed | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 swallowed | aux:pass |
| 12 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 defend | advcl |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 swallowed | compound:prt |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 dragon | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 dragon | det |
| 16 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 swallowed | obl:agent |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | ugliest = ugly | time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | defend | to-infinitive | ugliest = ugly not said here | ugliest = ugly | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | swallow up | past · passive | the dragon | my unhappy lover | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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