The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon and His Grandmother, sentence 23
The dragon then flew away, and they journeyed on with their little whip.
Who acts: dragon, carriages · What happens: fly away, journey on
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, carriages), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 dragon | det |
| 2 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flew | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 flew | advmod |
| 4 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 flew | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 journeyed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 journeyed | cc |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 journeyed | nsubj |
| 9 | journeyed | journey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 flew | conj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 journeyed | compound:prt |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 whip | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 whip | nmod:poss |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 whip | amod |
| 14 | whip | whip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 journeyed | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly away | past | the dragon | then | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | journey on | past | carriages = carriage | with carriages's little whip | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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