The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon and His Grandmother, sentence 54
When the Dragon had gone to bed, his old grandmother pulled up the stone and let out the soldier.
Who acts: Dragon · What happens: go, pull up, let out · To what, where: bed, old grandmother, soldier
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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 gone | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Dragon | det |
| 3 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 gone | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gone | aux |
| 5 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 bed | case |
| 7 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gone | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 pulled | punct |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 grandmother | nmod:poss |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 grandmother | amod |
| 11 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pulled | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 gone | conj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 pulled | compound:prt |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 stone | det |
| 15 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pulled | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 let | cc |
| 17 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 pulled | conj |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 let | compound:prt |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 soldier | det |
| 20 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 let | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · perfect | the Dragon | bed | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | pull up | participle · passive | whale's old grandmother | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: subject=Theme stone=Result | |||||
| 3 | let out | infinitive | the soldier | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soldier=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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