The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 159
A few paces nearer, and man and horse would have been swallowed up by them!
Who acts: paces · What happens: swallow up · To what, where: man
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 (paces), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 paces | det |
| 2 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 paces | amod |
| 3 | paces | pace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 nearer | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | nearer | near | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 swallowed | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 swallowed | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 swallowed | cc |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 swallowed | nsubj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 horse | cc |
| 9 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 man | conj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 swallowed | aux |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 swallowed | aux |
| 12 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 swallowed | aux:pass |
| 13 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 swallowed | compound:prt |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 them | case |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 swallowed | obl |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 13 swallowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swallow up | would · perfect · passive | paces = pace | man and horse | near property | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
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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