The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 92

The little dog who was watching her mistress promptly flew at Lagree and bit her so severely that she stumbled against a corner of the cave and broke off her only tooth.

Who acts: little dog, Lagree · What happens: watch, fly, bite, stumble, break off · To what, where: mistress, Lagree, corner

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), 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 (little dog, Lagree), 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	3 dog	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dog	amod
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 flew	nsubj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 watching	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 watching	aux
6	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 dog	acl:relcl
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mistress	nmod:poss
8	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 watching	obj
9	promptly	promptly	ADV	_	10 flew	advmod
10	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 Lagree	case
12	Lagree	Lagree	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 flew	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 bit	cc
14	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 flew	conj
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 bit	obj
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 severely	advmod
17	severely	severely	ADV	_	14 bit	advmod
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 stumbled	mark
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 stumbled	nsubj
20	stumbled	stumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 bit	advcl
21	against	against	ADP	_	23 corner	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 corner	det
23	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 stumbled	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 cave	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 cave	det
26	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 corner	nmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 broke	cc
28	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 flew	conj
29	off	off	ADP	_	30 her	case
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 broke	obl
31	only	only	ADV	_	32 tooth	advmod
32	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 broke	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	watch	past · progressive	the little dog	dog's mistress			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistress=Theme
2	fly	past	the little dog		Lagree	promptly property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent at lagree=Location
3	bite	past	the little dog not said here	Lagree		severely property	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
4	stumble	past	Lagree		a corner of the cave		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against corner=Trajectory
5	break off	past	the little dog not said here	Lagree		tooth obl	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Patient

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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