The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 154
The Dragon was now so near that in a couple of springs he would be over the frontier.
Who acts: wisdom · What happens: be · To what, where: frontier
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), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Dragon | det |
| 2 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 near | cop |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 near | advmod |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 near | advmod |
| 6 | near | near | ADP | _ | 18 frontier | case |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 frontier | mark |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 couple | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 couple | det |
| 10 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 frontier | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 springs | case |
| 12 | springs | spring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 couple | nmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 frontier | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 frontier | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 frontier | cop |
| 16 | over | over | ADP | _ | 18 frontier | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 frontier | det |
| 18 | frontier | frontier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Dragon | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Dragon | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | would | wisdom | the frontier | in a couple of springs | 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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