The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon and His Grandmother, sentence 17
Then the dragon seized them in his claws, took them through the air over the army, and set them down on the earth a long way from it.
Who acts: dragon · What happens: seize, take, set down · To what, where: others, claws, air, earth
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 seized | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dragon | det |
| 3 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seized | nsubj |
| 4 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 seized | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 claws | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 claws | nmod:poss |
| 8 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 seized | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 took | punct |
| 10 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 seized | conj |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 took | obj |
| 12 | through | through | ADP | _ | 14 air | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 air | det |
| 14 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | obl |
| 15 | over | over | ADP | _ | 17 army | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 army | det |
| 17 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 set | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 set | cc |
| 20 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 took | advcl |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 set | obj |
| 22 | down | down | ADP | _ | 20 set | compound:prt |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 earth | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 earth | det |
| 25 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 set | obl |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 way | det |
| 27 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 way | amod |
| 28 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 earth | nmod:unmarked |
| 29 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 it | case |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 way | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past | the dragon | others = other | King's claws | then | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||
| 2 | take | past | the dragon not said here | others = other | the air | over the army | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||
| 3 | set down | infinitive | the dragon not said here | others = other | the earth a long way from dragon | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme on earth=Destination |
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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