The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 143
After two or three days the monster’s strength will be so far exhausted that you will be able to come near him.
Who acts: strength, you · What happens: be, come
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 (strength, you), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 5 days | case |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 days | nummod |
| 3 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 4 three | cc |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 two | conj |
| 5 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 strength | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 monster | det |
| 7 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 strength | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 monster | case |
| 9 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 exhausted | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 exhausted | cop |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 exhausted | advmod |
| 13 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 exhausted | advmod |
| 14 | exhausted | exhaust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 strength | acl:relcl |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 able | mark |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 able | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 able | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 able | cop |
| 19 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 exhausted | ccomp |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 come | mark |
| 21 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 able | xcomp |
| 22 | near | near | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 come | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 strength | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | future | the monster's strength not said here | exhaust, far property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | future | you | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come | to-infinitive | you not said here | near length | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near he=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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