The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 195
Once when my father was fighting against some dragons, who were the scourge of our country, I slew the youngest dragon.
Who acts: father, dragons, I · What happens: fight, be, slay · To what, where: scourge, youngest dragon
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, dragons, 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 fighting | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 fighting | mark |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 father | nmod:poss |
| 4 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fighting | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fighting | aux |
| 6 | fighting | fight | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 slew | advcl |
| 7 | against | against | ADP | _ | 9 dragons | case |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 dragons | det |
| 9 | dragons | dragon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 fighting | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 scourge | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 scourge | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 scourge | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 scourge | det |
| 14 | scourge | scourge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dragons | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 country | case |
| 16 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 country | nmod:poss |
| 17 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 scourge | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 fighting | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 slew | nsubj |
| 20 | slew | slay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 dragon | det |
| 22 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 23 dragon | amod |
| 23 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 slew | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 slew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | past · progressive | my father | against some dragons; once property | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | some dragons | the scourge | of our country | tree rules | |||
| 3 | slay | past | I | the youngest dragon | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dragon=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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