The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 165

The death struggle of the monster lasted three days and three nights; in his writhing he beat his tail so violently against the ground, that at ten miles’ distance the earth trembled as if with an earthquake.

Who acts: death struggle, wisdom, earth, monster · What happens: last, beat, distance, tremble, struggle · To what, where: tail, writhing, earth

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 (death struggle, wisdom, earth, monster), 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	3 struggle	det
2	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 struggle	compound
3	struggle	struggle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lasted	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 monster	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 monster	det
6	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 struggle	nmod
7	lasted	last	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 days	nummod
9	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 lasted	obl:unmarked
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 nights	cc
11	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 nights	nummod
12	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 days	conj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 beat	punct
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 writhing	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 writhing	nmod:poss
16	writhing	writhing	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 beat	obl
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 beat	nsubj
18	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 lasted	conj
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 tail	nmod:poss
20	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 beat	obj
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 violently	advmod
22	violently	violently	ADV	_	18 beat	advmod
23	against	against	ADP	_	25 ground	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 ground	det
25	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 beat	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 distance	punct
27	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 distance	det
28	at	at	ADP	_	30 miles	case
29	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 miles	nummod
30	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 distance	obl
31	’	'	PUNCT	_	30 miles	punct
32	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 beat	obl
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 earth	det
34	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 distance	nsubj
35	trembled	tremble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 earth	acl
36	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	40 earthquake	case
37	if	if	SCONJ	_	36 as	fixed
38	with	with	ADP	_	40 earthquake	case
39	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 earthquake	det
40	earthquake	earthquake	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 trembled	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 lasted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	last	past	the death struggle of the monster			day		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
2	beat	past	wisdom	wisdom's tail	struggle's writhing		against the ground; violently property	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent tail=Instrument against ground=Patient
3	distance		the earth				at ten miles	tree rules
4	tremble	participle		the earth not said here			as a earthquake	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	struggle		the monster					nom struggle «act intransitive»: of=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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