The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 149

After remaining in his own home for some weeks, he heard people say that the terrible Dragon of the North was not far off, and might shortly be expected in the country.

Who acts: wisdom, people, terrible Dragon · What happens: remain, hear, say, not be, expect · To what, where: own home, country · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (wisdom, people, terrible 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	2 remaining	mark
2	remaining	remain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 heard	advcl
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 home	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 home	nmod:poss
5	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 home	amod
6	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 remaining	obl
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 weeks	case
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 weeks	det
9	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 remaining	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 remaining	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 heard	nsubj
12	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 say	nsubj
14	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 heard	ccomp
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 off	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Dragon	det
17	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Dragon	amod
18	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 off	nsubj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 North	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 North	det
21	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Dragon	nmod
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 off	cop
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 off	advmod
24	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	25 off	advmod
25	off	off	ADV	_	14 say	ccomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 expected	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 expected	cc
28	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 expected	aux
29	shortly	shortly	ADV	_	31 expected	advmod
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 expected	aux:pass
31	expected	expect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 heard	conj
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 country	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 country	det
34	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 expected	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	remain	gerund	wisdom not said here	wisdom's own home	week		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in home=Location
2	hear	past	wisdom				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	present	people				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	not is	past	the terrible Dragon of the North			far, off property	tree rules
5	expect	might · passive	wisdom not said here	the country		shortly property	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»

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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