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The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 8

In this way the Dragon was able to feed upon both men and beasts without the least trouble to itself, as it needed not to move from the spot where it was lying.

Who acts: Dragon · What happens: be, feed, need, not move, lie · To what, where: way, spot

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 (Dragon), 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

casedetobldetnsubjcopmarkxcompcasedetoblccconjcasedetamodoblcasenmodpunctmarknsubjconjadvmodmarkxcompcasedetobladvmodnsubjauxacl:relclpunctrootInADPthisDETwayNOUNtheDETDragonPROPNwasAUXableADJtoPARTfeedVERBuponADPbothDETmenNOUNandCCONJbeastsNOUNwithoutADPtheDETleastADJtroubleNOUNtoADPitselfPRON,PUNCTasSCONJitPRONneededVERBnotPARTtoPARTmoveVERBfromADPtheDETspotNOUNwhereADVitPRONwasAUXlyingVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1IninADP_3 waycase
2thisthisDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem3 waydet
3waywayNOUNNumber=Sing7 ableobl
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 Dragondet
5DragonDragonPROPNNumber=Sing7 ablensubj
6wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 ablecop
7ableableADJDegree=Posrootroot
8totoPART_9 feedmark
9feedfeedVERBVerbForm=Inf7 ablexcomp
10uponuponADP_12 mencase
11bothbothDETPronType=Tot12 mendet
12menmanNOUNNumber=Plur9 feedobl
13andandCCONJ_14 beastscc
14beastsbeastNOUNNumber=Plur12 menconj
15withoutwithoutADP_18 troublecase
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art18 troubledet
17leastleastADJDegree=Sup18 troubleamod
18troubletroubleNOUNNumber=Sing9 feedobl
19totoADP_20 itselfcase
20itselfitselfPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes18 troublenmod
21,,PUNCT_24 neededpunct
22asasSCONJ_24 neededmark
23ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs24 needednsubj
24neededneedVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 feedconj
25notnotPARTPolarity=Neg27 moveadvmod
26totoPART_27 movemark
27movemoveVERBVerbForm=Inf24 neededxcomp
28fromfromADP_30 spotcase
29thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art30 spotdet
30spotspotNOUNNumber=Sing27 moveobl
31wherewhereADVPronType=Rel34 lyingadvmod
32ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs34 lyingnsubj
33wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin34 lyingaux
34lyinglieVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part30 spotacl:relcl
35..PUNCT_7 ablepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispastthe Dragonthis wayable propertytree rules
2feedto-infinitivethe Dragon not said hereupon both men and beasts; without the least trouble to Dragonvn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent
3needpastDragonvn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4not move not said to happento-infinitiveDragon not said herethe spotvn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from spot=Trajectory
5liepast · progressiveDragonvn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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