The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon and His Grandmother, sentence 58

He told them how the Dragon had been outwitted by his grandmother, and how he had heard from his own lips the answer to the riddle.

Who acts: whale, grandmother · What happens: tell, outwit, hear · To what, where: comrades, Dragon, own lips · 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 (whale, grandmother), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 outwitted	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Dragon	det
6	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 outwitted	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 outwitted	aux
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 outwitted	aux:pass
9	outwitted	outwit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 told	ccomp
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 grandmother	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 grandmother	nmod:poss
12	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 outwitted	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 heard	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 heard	cc
15	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	18 heard	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 heard	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 heard	aux
18	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 told	conj
19	from	from	ADP	_	22 lips	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 lips	nmod:poss
21	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 lips	amod
22	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 heard	obl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 answer	det
24	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 lips	conj
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 riddle	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 riddle	det
27	riddle	riddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 answer	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	whale		comrades = comrade		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
2	outwit	past · perfect · passive	whale's grandmother	the Dragon			vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot subject=Theme
3	hear	past · perfect	whale			whale's own lips and the answer to the riddle	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from lip=Source

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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