The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 10
Once a great forest in which the Dragon lay had been set on fire; the forest was burnt down, but the fire did not do the monster the least harm.
Who acts: fire · What happens: set, burnt down, not do · To what, where: Dragon lay, great forest, forest, monster
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fire), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 forest | det |
| 3 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 forest | amod |
| 4 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Once | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 which | case |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 set | obl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 lay | det |
| 8 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 lay | compound |
| 9 | lay | Lay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 set | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 set | aux |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 set | aux:pass |
| 12 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 forest | acl:relcl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 fire | case |
| 14 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 set | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 burnt | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 forest | det |
| 17 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 burnt | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 burnt | aux:pass |
| 19 | burnt | burnt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 set | parataxis |
| 20 | down | down | ADP | _ | 19 burnt | compound:prt |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 do | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 do | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 fire | det |
| 24 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 do | nsubj |
| 25 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 do | aux |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 do | advmod |
| 27 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 burnt | conj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 monster | det |
| 29 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 do | obj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 harm | det |
| 31 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 32 harm | amod |
| 32 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 do | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Once | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past · perfect · passive | the Dragon lay | a great forest | on fire | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on fire=Destination | |||
| 2 | burnt down | past · passive | the forest | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not do | past · do-support | the fire | the monster | tree rules |
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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