The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 5, sentence 32
As soon as she was in the open again she mounted her chariot, which was drawn by a fiery dragon, and flew through the air in it.
Who acts: daughter, fiery dragon · What happens: be, mount, draw, fly · To what, where: chariot, air
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, fiery 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 mounted | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 open | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 open | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 open | cop |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 open | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 open | det |
| 8 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 soon | advcl |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 8 open | advmod |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 mounted | nsubj |
| 11 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 chariot | nmod:poss |
| 13 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mounted | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 drawn | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 drawn | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 drawn | aux:pass |
| 17 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 chariot | acl:relcl |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 dragon | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 dragon | det |
| 20 | fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 dragon | amod |
| 21 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 drawn | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 flew | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 flew | cc |
| 24 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 mounted | conj |
| 25 | through | through | ADP | _ | 27 air | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 air | det |
| 27 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 flew | obl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 it | case |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 flew | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 mounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | daughter | again | open property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | mount | past | daughter | daughter's chariot | soon property | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chariot=Patient | |||
| 3 | draw | past · passive | a fiery dragon | daughter's chariot | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fly | past | daughter not said here | the air | in air | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through air=Location |
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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