The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon and His Grandmother, sentence 12
It hovered near them, and asked why they were hidden there.
Who acts: dragon · What happens: hover, ask, hide · To what, where: others · 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 (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
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 hovered | nsubj |
| 2 | hovered | hover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | near | near | ADP | _ | 4 them | case |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 hovered | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 asked | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 asked | cc |
| 7 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 hovered | conj |
| 8 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 hidden | advmod |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 hidden | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 hidden | aux:pass |
| 11 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 asked | ccomp |
| 12 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 hidden | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hovered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hover | past | dragon | near others = other | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near they=Location | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | dragon not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | hide | past · passive | others = other | there | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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