The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 158
The Dragon had his monstrous jaws wide open, all ready for his expected prey.
Who acts: Dragon · What happens: have, expect · To what, where: monstrous jaws
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Dragon | det |
| 2 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 jaws | nmod:poss |
| 5 | monstrous | monstrous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 jaws | amod |
| 6 | jaws | jaw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 had | obj |
| 7 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 open | advmod |
| 8 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 jaws | amod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ready | punct |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 ready | advmod |
| 11 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 had | conj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 prey | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 prey | nmod:poss |
| 14 | expected | expect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 prey | amod |
| 15 | prey | prey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ready | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the Dragon | wisdom's monstrous jaws | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jaw=Patient | ||||
| 2 | expect | participle | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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