The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 55
The thunder crashed, and the lightning seemed as if it must burn up everything; the two basilisks appeared, one on each side of the bad Dwarf, like giants, mountains high, and fire flew from their mouths and ears, until they looked like flaming furnaces.
Who acts: thunder, lightning, two basilisks, fire, basilisks · What happens: crash, seem, burn up, appear, fly, look · To what, where: everything, one, side, mouths
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, 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 (thunder, lightning, two basilisks, fire), 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 thunder | det |
| 2 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crashed | nsubj |
| 3 | crashed | crash | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 seemed | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 seemed | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lightning | det |
| 7 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seemed | nsubj |
| 8 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 crashed | parataxis |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 burn | mark |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 burn | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 burn | nsubj |
| 12 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 burn | aux |
| 13 | burn | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 seemed | xcomp |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 burn | compound:prt |
| 15 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 13 burn | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 appeared | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 basilisks | det |
| 18 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 basilisks | nummod |
| 19 | basilisks | basilisk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 appeared | nsubj |
| 20 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 crashed | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 one | punct |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 appeared | obj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 side | case |
| 24 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 side | det |
| 25 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 one | nmod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Dwarf | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Dwarf | det |
| 28 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 Dwarf | amod |
| 29 | Dwarf | Dwarf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 side | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 giants | punct |
| 31 | like | like | ADP | _ | 32 giants | case |
| 32 | giants | giant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 appeared | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 mountains | punct |
| 34 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 high | obl:unmarked |
| 35 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 giants | amod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 flew | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 flew | cc |
| 38 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 flew | nsubj |
| 39 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 crashed | parataxis |
| 40 | from | from | ADP | _ | 42 mouths | case |
| 41 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 mouths | nmod:poss |
| 42 | mouths | mouth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 flew | obl |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 ears | cc |
| 44 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 mouths | conj |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 looked | punct |
| 46 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 48 looked | mark |
| 47 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 looked | nsubj |
| 48 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 flew | conj |
| 49 | like | like | ADP | _ | 51 furnaces | case |
| 50 | flaming | flame | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 51 furnaces | amod |
| 51 | furnaces | furnace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 looked | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 crashed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crash | past | the thunder | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | seem | past | the lightning | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | burn up a condition, not said to happen | must | lightning | everything | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent everything=Theme | ||||
| 4 | appear | past | the two basilisks | one | each side of the bad Dwarf | like giants | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location one=Theme | ||
| 5 | fly | past | fire | basilisks's mouths and ears | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from mouth=Trajectory | ||||
| 6 | look | past | basilisks = basilisk | like flaming furnaces | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | flame | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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