The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, sentence 62
But he had hardly turned to continue his search when he met six dragons covered with scales that were harder than iron.
Who acts: King, scales · What happens: turn, continue, meet, cover, be, search · To what, where: search, six dragons
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, scales), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg503:574): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 turned | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 turned | aux |
| 4 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 5 turned | advmod |
| 5 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 continue | mark |
| 7 | continue | continue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 turned | xcomp |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 search | nmod:poss |
| 9 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 continue | obj |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 met | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 met | nsubj |
| 12 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 turned | advcl |
| 13 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 dragons | nummod |
| 14 | dragons | dragon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 met | obj |
| 15 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 dragons | acl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 scales | case |
| 17 | scales | scale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 covered | obl |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 harder | nsubj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 harder | cop |
| 20 | harder | hard | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 scales | acl:relcl |
| 21 | than | than | ADP | _ | 22 iron | case |
| 22 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 harder | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past · perfect | King | hardly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | continue | to-infinitive | King not said here | King's search | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent search=Theme | ||||
| 3 | meet | past | King | six dragons | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dragon=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | cover | participle | six dragons not said here | with scales | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with scale=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | past | scales | than iron; hard property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | search | King | nom search «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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