The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon and His Grandmother, sentence 63
The Dragon was much annoyed, and hummed and hawed a good deal, and asked the second, ‘But what shall be your spoon?’
Who acts: Dragon · What happens: be, hum, haw, ask · To what, where: good deal, second, spoon
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Dragon | det |
| 2 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 annoyed | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 annoyed | cop |
| 4 | much | much | ADV | _ | 5 annoyed | advmod |
| 5 | annoyed | annoyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 hummed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 hummed | cc |
| 8 | hummed | hum | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 annoyed | parataxis |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 hawed | cc |
| 10 | hawed | haw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 hummed | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 deal | det |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 deal | amod |
| 13 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hawed | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 asked | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 asked | cc |
| 16 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 hummed | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 second | det |
| 18 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 asked | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 spoon | punct |
| 20 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 spoon | punct |
| 21 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 spoon | cc |
| 22 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 26 spoon | nsubj |
| 23 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 spoon | aux |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 spoon | cop |
| 25 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 spoon | nmod:poss |
| 26 | spoon | spoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 asked | obl |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 annoyed | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 annoyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Dragon | annoyed property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hum | past | vn bulge-47.5.3 «NP V»: agent=Location | ||||||
| 3 | haw | past | a good deal | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | the second | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent second=Recipient | |||||
| 5 | is a | shall | your spoon | tree rules |
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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