The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 53
The door was guarded by a great dragon, but as soon as he threw an apple at it, the beast vanished.
Who acts: great dragon, bird, beast · What happens: guard, throw, vanish · To what, where: door, apple
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great dragon, bird, beast), 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 door | det |
| 2 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 guarded | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 guarded | aux:pass |
| 4 | guarded | guard | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 dragon | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 dragon | det |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 dragon | amod |
| 8 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 guarded | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 threw | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 threw | cc |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | _ | 12 soon | advmod |
| 12 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 threw | advmod |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 threw | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 threw | nsubj |
| 15 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 guarded | parataxis |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 apple | det |
| 17 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 threw | obj |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 threw | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 vanished | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 beast | det |
| 22 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 vanished | nsubj |
| 23 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 threw | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 guarded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guard | past · passive | a great dragon | the door | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | throw | past | bird | a apple | door | soon property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent apple=Theme at it=Destination | ||
| 3 | vanish | past | the beast | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP 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 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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