The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon and His Grandmother, sentence 11
Whilst they were speaking a fiery dragon came flying through the air.
Who acts: others · What happens: speak, come, fly · To what, where: fiery dragon, air · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon and His Grandmother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (others), 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 | Whilst | whilst | SCONJ | _ | 4 speaking | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 speaking | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 speaking | aux |
| 4 | speaking | speak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 came | advcl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 dragon | det |
| 6 | fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 dragon | amod |
| 7 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 speaking | obj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 came | xcomp |
| 10 | through | through | ADP | _ | 12 air | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 air | det |
| 12 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 flying | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past · progressive | others = other | a fiery dragon | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | fly | gerund | the air | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through air=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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