The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 11

However, there was a tradition amongst the wise men of the country that the Dragon might be overcome by one who possessed King Solomon’s signet-ring, upon which a secret writing was engraved.

Who acts: tradition, country · What happens: be, overcome, possess, engrave · To what, where: Dragon, signet ring, secret writing

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 (tradition, country), 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	However	however	ADV	_	4 was	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 was	expl
4	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 tradition	det
6	tradition	tradition	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 was	nsubj
7	amongst	amongst	ADP	_	10 men	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 men	det
9	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 men	amod
10	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 tradition	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 country	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 country	det
13	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 men	nmod
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 overcome	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Dragon	det
16	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 overcome	nsubj:pass
17	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 overcome	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 overcome	aux:pass
19	overcome	overcome	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 country	acl:relcl
20	by	by	ADP	_	21 one	case
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 possessed	obl
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 possessed	nsubj
23	possessed	possess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 overcome	advcl
24	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Solomon	compound
25	Solomon	Solomon	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 ring	nmod:poss
26	’s	's	PART	_	25 Solomon	case
27	signet	signet	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 ring	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 signet	punct
29	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 possessed	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 engraved	punct
31	upon	upon	ADP	_	32 which	case
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 engraved	obl
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 writing	det
34	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 writing	amod
35	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 engraved	nsubj:pass
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 engraved	aux:pass
37	engraved	engrave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 ring	acl:relcl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a tradition amongst the wise men of the country		there	however property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	overcome	might · passive	the country not said here	the Dragon			vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	possess	past		King Solomon's signet ring		by one	vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot ring=Theme
4	engrave	past · passive		a secret writing	King Solomon's signet ring		vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: subject=Theme upon which=Destination

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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