The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 142

As soon as the Dragon has made himself fast to the spear, which you must thrust through his jaws, you must spring quickly from the iron horse and fasten the ends of the chains firmly to the ground with iron stakes, so that he cannot get away from them.

Who acts: spear, you, length · What happens: make, thrust, spring, fasten, not get away · To what, where: Dragon, jaws, ends

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 (spear, you, length), 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	7 made	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 made	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Dragon	det
5	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 made	nsubj:pass
6	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 made	aux
7	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 made	obj
9	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 made	advmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 spear	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 spear	det
12	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 made	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 thrust	punct
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 thrust	nsubj
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 thrust	nsubj
16	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 thrust	aux
17	thrust	thrust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 spear	acl:relcl
18	through	through	ADP	_	20 jaws	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 jaws	nmod:poss
20	jaws	jaw	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 thrust	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 spring	punct
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 spring	nsubj
23	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 spring	aux
24	spring	spring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 made	parataxis
25	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	24 spring	advmod
26	from	from	ADP	_	29 horse	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 horse	det
28	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 horse	compound
29	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 spring	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 fasten	cc
31	fasten	fasten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 spring	conj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 ends	det
33	ends	end	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 fasten	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 chains	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 chains	det
36	chains	chain	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 ends	nmod
37	firmly	firmly	ADV	_	40 ground	advmod
38	to	to	ADP	_	40 ground	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 ground	det
40	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 fasten	obl
41	with	with	ADP	_	43 stakes	case
42	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 stakes	compound
43	stakes	stake	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 ground	nmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 get	punct
45	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	50 get	mark
46	that	that	SCONJ	_	45 so	fixed
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 get	nsubj
48	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 get	aux
49	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	50 get	advmod
50	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 fasten	conj
51	away	away	ADV	_	50 get	advmod
52	from	from	ADP	_	53 them	case
53	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 get	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	present · perfect · passive		the Dragon		to the spear; fast, soon property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary himself=Product
2	thrust	must	the spear		length's jaws		vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent through jaw=Trajectory
3	spring	must	you			from the iron horse; quickly property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from horse=Trajectory
4	fasten	infinitive	you not said here	the ends of the chains		to the ground with iron stakes	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent end=Patient to ground=Co-Patient
5	not get away	can	length			from chains = chain; away property	vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from they=Source

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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