The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 22
The dragon pressed as hard as he could, but the lid never moved.
Who acts: dragon · What happens: press, not move · To what, where: dragon
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, 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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 dragon | det |
| 2 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 moved | nsubj |
| 3 | pressed | press | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 dragon | acl |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 hard | advmod |
| 5 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pressed | xcomp |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 could | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 could | nsubj |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 hard | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 moved | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 moved | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 lid | det |
| 12 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 moved | nsubj |
| 13 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 14 moved | advmod |
| 14 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 moved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | press | participle | the dragon not said here | hard property | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not move | past | the dragon | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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