The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon and His Grandmother, sentence 44
At midnight the Dragon flew in, and asked for his supper.
Who acts: Dragon · What happens: fly in, ask
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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 midnight | case |
| 2 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 flew | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Dragon | det |
| 4 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 flew | nsubj |
| 5 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADV | _ | 5 flew | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 asked | cc |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 flew | conj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 supper | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 supper | nmod:poss |
| 12 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly in | past | the Dragon | midnight | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the Dragon not said here | for stone's supper | vn inquire-37.1.2 «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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