The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 162
A fearful clap like thunder, which could be heard for miles around, now warned him that the Dragon’s jaws had closed upon the spear.
What happens: hear around, warn, close · To what, where: fearful clap, wisdom, jaws · 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: 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 clap | det |
| 2 | fearful | fearful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 clap | amod |
| 3 | clap | clap | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 thunder | case |
| 5 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 clap | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 heard | punct |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 heard | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 heard | aux:pass |
| 10 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 clap | parataxis |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 miles | case |
| 12 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 heard | obl |
| 13 | around | around | ADV | _ | 10 heard | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 warned | punct |
| 15 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 warned | advmod |
| 16 | warned | warn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 heard | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 warned | obj |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 closed | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Dragon | det |
| 20 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 jaws | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 Dragon | case |
| 22 | jaws | jaw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 closed | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 closed | aux |
| 24 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 warned | ccomp |
| 25 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 27 spear | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 spear | det |
| 27 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 closed | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 clap | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear around | could · passive | a fearful clap like thunder | for miles; around property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | warn speech: warn | past | wisdom | now | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | close | past · perfect · passive | the Dragon's jaws | upon the spear | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: 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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