The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 3

Very long ago, as old people have told me, there lived a terrible monster, who came out of the North, and laid waste whole tracts of country, devouring both men and beasts; and this monster was so destructive that it was feared that unless help came no living creature would be left on the face of the earth.

Who acts: terrible monster, monster, help · What happens: tell, live, come out, devour, be, fear · To what, where: old people, me, terrible monster, men, monster, living creature · 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: who acts (terrible monster, monster, help), 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	Very	very	ADV	_	2 long	advmod
2	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 ago	advmod
3	ago	ago	ADV	_	13 lived	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 ago	punct
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 told	mark
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 people	amod
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 told	nsubj:pass
8	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 told	aux
9	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 lived	advcl
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 told	iobj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 told	punct
12	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 lived	expl
13	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 monster	det
15	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 monster	amod
16	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lived	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 came	punct
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 came	nsubj
19	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 monster	acl:relcl
20	out	out	ADV	_	19 came	advmod
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 North	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 North	det
23	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 came	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 tracts	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 tracts	cc
26	laid	laid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 waste	amod
27	waste	waste	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 tracts	compound
28	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 tracts	amod
29	tracts	tract	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 lived	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 country	case
31	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 tracts	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 devouring	punct
33	devouring	devour	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 lived	advcl
34	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	35 men	det
35	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 devouring	obj
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 beasts	cc
37	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 men	conj
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	44 destructive	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 destructive	cc
40	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	41 monster	det
41	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 destructive	nsubj
42	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 destructive	cop
43	so	so	ADV	_	44 destructive	advmod
44	destructive	destructive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 lived	conj
45	that	that	SCONJ	_	48 feared	mark
46	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 feared	nsubj:pass
47	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 feared	aux:pass
48	feared	fear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	44 destructive	advcl
49	that	that	SCONJ	_	48 feared	obl
50	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	52 came	mark
51	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 came	nsubj
52	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 feared	advcl
53	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	55 creature	det
54	living	living	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 creature	amod
55	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 left	nsubj:pass
56	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	58 left	aux
57	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	58 left	aux:pass
58	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	52 came	parataxis
59	on	on	ADP	_	61 face	case
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 face	det
61	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 left	obl
62	of	of	ADP	_	64 earth	case
63	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	64 earth	det
64	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 face	nmod
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · perfect · passive		old people	me			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient i=Topic
2	live	past		a terrible monster		there	waste whole tracts of country obl; ago property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme monster=Location
3	come out	past	a terrible monster				of the North; out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
4	devour	gerund		both men and beasts				vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient
5	is	past	this monster				destructive property	tree rules
6	fear	past · passive		monster				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
7	come a condition, not said to happen	past	help					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	leave	would · passive		no living creature		the face of the earth		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme on face=Location

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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