The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 4

It had a body like an ox, and legs like a frog, two short fore-legs, and two long ones behind, and besides that it had a tail like a serpent, ten fathoms in length.

Who acts: creature · What happens: have, beside · To what, where: body, tail

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 (creature), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 body	det
4	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 ox	case
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 ox	det
7	ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 body	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 legs	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 legs	cc
10	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obl
11	like	like	ADP	_	13 frog	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 frog	det
13	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 legs	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 legs	punct
15	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 legs	nummod
16	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 legs	amod
17	fore	fore	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 legs	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 fore	punct
19	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 legs	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 ones	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 ones	cc
22	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 ones	nummod
23	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 ones	amod
24	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	parataxis
25	behind	behind	ADV	_	24 ones	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 besides	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 besides	cc
28	besides	beside	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 had	mark
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 had	nsubj
31	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 besides	ccomp
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 tail	det
33	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 had	obj
34	like	like	ADP	_	36 serpent	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 serpent	det
36	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 had	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 fathoms	punct
38	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	39 fathoms	nummod
39	fathoms	fathom	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 serpent	appos
40	in	in	ADP	_	41 length	case
41	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 fathoms	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	creature	a body	like a ox; legs like a frog and two short fore legs obl	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Patient
2	beside	present	creature not said here			tree rules
3	have	past	creature	a tail	like a serpent	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=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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