The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon and His Grandmother, sentence 50
‘They are mine,’ answered the Dragon scornfully, ‘for I shall only give them one riddle which they will never be able to guess.’
Who acts: soldiers, mine, I, one riddle · What happens: be, answer, give, not be, guess · To what, where: mine, Dragon, one riddle, soldiers · 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 (soldiers, mine, I, one riddle), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 mine | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 mine | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 mine | cop |
| 4 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 answered | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 mine | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 mine | punct |
| 7 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Dragon | det |
| 9 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 answered | obj |
| 10 | scornfully | scornfully | ADV | _ | 7 answered | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 give | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 give | punct |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 give | mark |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 give | nsubj |
| 15 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 give | aux |
| 16 | only | only | ADV | _ | 17 give | advmod |
| 17 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 answered | ccomp |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 give | iobj |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 riddle | nummod |
| 20 | riddle | riddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 give | obj |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 able | nsubj |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 able | nsubj |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 able | aux |
| 24 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 26 able | advmod |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 able | cop |
| 26 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 riddle | acl:relcl |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 guess | mark |
| 28 | guess | guess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 able | xcomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 give | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | soldiers = soldier | mine | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | mine | the Dragon | scornfully property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | give | shall | I | one riddle | soldiers = soldier | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient riddle=Theme | |||
| 4 | not is | future | one riddle | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | guess | to-infinitive | one riddle not said here | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: 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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