The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 93
His curiosity was instantly roused, and he advanced cautiously till he saw two huge dragons guarding the gate of a wood.
Who acts: sight, two huge dragons · What happens: rouse, advance, see, guard · To what, where: curiosity, two huge dragons, gate
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), 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 (sight, two huge dragons), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 curiosity | nmod:poss |
| 2 | curiosity | curiosity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 roused | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 roused | aux:pass |
| 4 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 5 roused | advmod |
| 5 | roused | rouse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 advanced | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 advanced | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 advanced | nsubj |
| 9 | advanced | advance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 roused | conj |
| 10 | cautiously | cautiously | ADV | _ | 9 advanced | advmod |
| 11 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 13 saw | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 saw | nsubj |
| 13 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 advanced | advcl |
| 14 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 dragons | nummod |
| 15 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 dragons | amod |
| 16 | dragons | dragon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 saw | obj |
| 17 | guarding | guard | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 dragons | acl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 gate | det |
| 19 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 guarding | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 wood | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 wood | det |
| 22 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gate | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 roused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rouse | past · passive | sight's curiosity | instantly property | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | advance | past | sight | cautiously property | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | see | past | sight | two huge dragons | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dragon=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | guard | gerund | two huge dragons not said here | the gate of a wood | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=Beneficiary |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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