The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 166

When he at length lost power to move his tail, the youth with the help of the ring took up a stone which twenty ordinary men could not have moved, and beat the Dragon so hard about the head with it that very soon the monster lay lifeless before him.

Who acts: wisdom, youth, twenty ordinary men, monster · What happens: lose, move, take up, not move, beat, lie · To what, where: power, tail, stone, Dragon, ring

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, youth, twenty ordinary men, 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	5 lost	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lost	nsubj
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 length	case
4	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 he	nmod
5	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 took	advcl
6	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lost	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 move	mark
8	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 lost	xcomp
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 tail	nmod:poss
10	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 move	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 lost	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 youth	det
13	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 took	nsubj
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 help	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 help	det
16	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 youth	nmod
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 ring	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 ring	det
19	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 help	nmod
20	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	up	up	ADP	_	20 took	compound:prt
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 stone	det
23	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 took	obj
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 moved	obj
25	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 men	nummod
26	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 men	amod
27	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 moved	nsubj
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 moved	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 moved	advmod
30	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 moved	aux
31	moved	move	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 stone	acl:relcl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 beat	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 beat	cc
34	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	20 took	parataxis
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 Dragon	det
36	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 beat	obj
37	so	so	ADV	_	38 hard	advmod
38	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	34 beat	advmod
39	about	about	ADP	_	41 head	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 head	det
41	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 beat	obl
42	with	with	ADP	_	43 it	case
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 head	nmod
44	that	that	SCONJ	_	49 lay	mark
45	very	very	ADV	_	46 soon	advmod
46	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	49 lay	advmod
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 monster	det
48	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 lay	nsubj
49	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 beat	advcl
50	lifeless	lifeless	ADV	_	49 lay	advmod
51	before	before	ADP	_	52 him	case
52	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 lay	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	wisdom	power			tree rules
2	move	to-infinitive	wisdom not said here	wisdom's tail			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tail=Theme
3	take up	past	the youth with the help of the ring	a stone			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme
4	not move	could · perfect	twenty ordinary men	a stone			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent which=Theme
5	beat	infinitive		the Dragon		about the head with tail; hard property	tree rules
6	lie	past	the monster		before wisdom	lifeless, soon property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location
7	help			the ring			nom help «act transitive»: of=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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