The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 7

Nothing could hunt it, because its whole body was covered with scales, which were harder than stone or metal; its two great eyes shone by night, and even by day, like the brightest lamps, and anyone who had the ill luck to look into those eyes became as it were bewitched, and was obliged to rush of his own accord into the monster’s jaws.

Who acts: Nothing, scales, anyone · What happens: hunt, cover, be, shine, have, look · To what, where: creature, whole body, two great eyes, ill luck, jaws

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 (Nothing, scales, anyone), 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	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 hunt	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 hunt	aux
3	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hunt	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 covered	punct
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 covered	mark
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 body	nmod:poss
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 body	amod
9	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 covered	nsubj:pass
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 covered	aux:pass
11	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 hunt	parataxis
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 scales	case
13	scales	scale	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 covered	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 harder	punct
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 harder	nsubj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 harder	cop
17	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 scales	acl:relcl
18	than	than	ADP	_	19 stone	case
19	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 harder	obl
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 metal	cc
21	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 stone	conj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 eyes	punct
23	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 eyes	nmod:poss
24	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 eyes	nummod
25	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 eyes	amod
26	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 covered	conj
27	shone	shine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 eyes	acl
28	by	by	ADP	_	29 night	case
29	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 shone	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 day	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 day	cc
32	even	even	ADV	_	34 day	advmod
33	by	by	ADP	_	34 day	case
34	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 eyes	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 lamps	punct
36	like	like	ADP	_	39 lamps	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 lamps	det
38	brightest	bright	ADJ	Degree=Sup	39 lamps	amod
39	lamps	lamp	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 eyes	conj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 became	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 became	cc
42	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	53 became	nsubj
43	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	44 had	nsubj
44	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 anyone	acl:relcl
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 luck	det
46	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 luck	amod
47	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 had	obj
48	to	to	PART	_	49 look	mark
49	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 had	advcl
50	into	into	ADP	_	52 eyes	case
51	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	52 eyes	det
52	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 look	obl
53	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hunt	parataxis
54	as	as	SCONJ	_	57 bewitched	mark
55	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 bewitched	nsubj:pass
56	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	57 bewitched	aux:pass
57	bewitched	bewitch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	53 became	xcomp
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 obliged	punct
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 obliged	cc
60	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	61 obliged	aux:pass
61	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	53 became	conj
62	to	to	PART	_	63 rush	mark
63	rush	rush	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	61 obliged	xcomp
64	of	of	ADP	_	67 accord	case
65	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	67 accord	nmod:poss
66	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	67 accord	amod
67	accord	accord	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 rush	obl
68	into	into	ADP	_	72 jaws	case
69	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	70 monster	det
70	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	72 jaws	nmod:poss
71	’s	's	PART	_	70 monster	case
72	jaws	jaw	NOUN	Number=Plur	63 rush	obl
73	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hunt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	could	Nothing	creature			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	cover	past · passive		creature's whole body		with scales	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with scale=Theme
3	is	past	scales			than stone or metal; hard property	tree rules
4	shine	participle		creature's two great eyes and day and the brightest lamps not said here	night		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	have	past		the ill luck			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luck=Patient
6	look	to-infinitive				into that eyes	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into eye=Theme
7	become	past	anyone				tree rules
8	bewitch	past · passive		creature			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
9	oblige	past · passive	anyone not said here				vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: clause=Result
10	rush	to-infinitive	anyone not said here			into the monster's jaws result; of neighbourhood's own accord	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into jaw=Result

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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