The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 95

Their bodies were covered with glittering scales; their curly tails extended far over the land; flames darted from their mouths and noses, and their eyes would have made the bravest shudder; but as the Prince was invisible and they did not see him, he slipped past them into the wood.

Who acts: flames, dragons, gate · What happens: cover, extend, dart, make, be, not see · To what, where: bodies, curly tails, land, mouths, eyes, 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 (flames, dragons, gate), 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	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 bodies	nmod:poss
2	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 covered	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 covered	aux:pass
4	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 scales	case
6	glittering	glittering	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 scales	compound
7	scales	scale	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 covered	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 tails	punct
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 tails	nmod:poss
10	curly	curly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 tails	amod
11	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 covered	conj
12	extended	extend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 tails	acl
13	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 extended	advmod
14	over	over	ADP	_	16 land	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 land	det
16	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 extended	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 darted	punct
18	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 darted	nsubj
19	darted	dart	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 covered	parataxis
20	from	from	ADP	_	22 mouths	case
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 mouths	nmod:poss
22	mouths	mouth	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 darted	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 noses	cc
24	noses	nose	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 mouths	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 made	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 made	cc
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 eyes	nmod:poss
28	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 made	nsubj:pass
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 made	aux
30	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 made	aux
31	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 darted	conj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 shudder	det
33	bravest	brave	ADJ	Degree=Sup	34 shudder	amod
34	shudder	shudder	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 made	obj
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 invisible	punct
36	but	but	CCONJ	_	41 invisible	cc
37	as	as	ADP	_	39 Prince	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 Prince	det
39	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 invisible	obl
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 invisible	cop
41	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 covered	parataxis
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 see	cc
43	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 see	nsubj
44	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 see	aux
45	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	46 see	advmod
46	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 invisible	conj
47	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 see	obj
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 slipped	punct
49	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 slipped	nsubj
50	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 covered	parataxis
51	past	past	ADP	_	52 them	case
52	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 slipped	obl
53	into	into	ADP	_	55 wood	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 wood	det
55	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 slipped	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 covered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cover	past · passive		dragons's bodies		with glittering scales	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with scale=Theme
2	extend	participle		dragons's curly tails not said here	the land	far property	vn body_motion-49.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent over land=Path
3	dart	past	flames		dragons's mouths and noses		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from mouth=Trajectory
4	make	would · perfect · passive		dragons's eyes			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary shudder=Product
5	is	past				as the Prince; invisible property	tree rules
6	not see	past · do-support	dragons = dragon	gate			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
7	slip	past	gate		the wood	past dragons = dragon	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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