The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 62
Then the Dragon lashed with his tail till stones broke and trees crashed about him.
Who acts: Dragon, stones, trees · What happens: lash, break, crash
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Sigurd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dragon, stones, trees), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 lashed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Dragon | det |
| 3 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 lashed | nsubj |
| 4 | lashed | lash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 tail | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 tail | nmod:poss |
| 7 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lashed | obl |
| 8 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 10 broke | mark |
| 9 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 broke | nsubj |
| 10 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lashed | advcl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 crashed | cc |
| 12 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 crashed | nsubj |
| 13 | crashed | crash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 broke | conj |
| 14 | about | about | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 crashed | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lashed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lash | past | the Dragon | then | with Sigurd's tail | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent with tail=Instrument | |||
| 2 | break | past | stones | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | crash | past | trees | about Sigurd | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about he=Location |
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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