The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 161
Then quick as lightning he sprang from his horse before the Dragon had time to shut his mouth.
Who acts: wisdom, Dragon · What happens: spring, have, shut · To what, where: lightning, mouth
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, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 quick | advmod |
| 2 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 4 lightning | case |
| 4 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 quick | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sprang | nsubj |
| 6 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lightning | acl:relcl |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 horse | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 horse | nmod:poss |
| 9 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sprang | obl |
| 10 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 13 had | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Dragon | det |
| 12 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 had | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sprang | advcl |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 had | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 shut | mark |
| 16 | shut | shut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 time | acl |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 18 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 shut | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 quick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring | past | wisdom | lightning not said here | from wisdom's horse | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location lightning=Theme | |||
| 2 | have | past | the Dragon | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | shut | to-infinitive | the Dragon not said here | wisdom's mouth | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent mouth=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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