The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon and His Grandmother, sentence 65

The Dragon-made a face, and growled again three times, ‘Hum, hum, hum,’ and said to the third, ‘Do you know what your wineglass shall be?’

Who acts: made face, you, wineglass · What happens: make, growl, hum, say, know, be · 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 (made face, you, wineglass), 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	6 face	det
2	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 made	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Dragon	punct
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 face	amod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 face	det
6	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 growled	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 growled	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 growled	cc
9	growled	growl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	again	again	ADV	_	9 growled	advmod
11	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 times	nummod
12	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 growled	obl:unmarked
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Hum	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 Hum	punct
15	Hum	hum	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 growled	parataxis
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 hum	punct
17	hum	hum	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	15 Hum	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 hum	punct
19	hum	hum	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	15 Hum	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Hum	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	15 Hum	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 said	cc
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 growled	conj
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 third	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 third	det
26	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	23 said	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 know	punct
28	‘	'	PUNCT	_	31 know	punct
29	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 know	aux
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 know	nsubj
31	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 said	ccomp
32	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	36 be	obj
33	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 wineglass	nmod:poss
34	wineglass	wineglass	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 be	nsubj
35	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 be	aux
36	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 know	ccomp
37	?	?	PUNCT	_	31 know	punct
38	’	'	PUNCT	_	31 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	make	participle				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
2	growl	past	the made face	again; time		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	hum	infinitive				vn bulge-47.5.3 «NP V»: agent=Location
4	hum	infinitive				vn bulge-47.5.3 «NP V»: agent=Location
5	hum	infinitive				vn bulge-47.5.3 «NP V»: agent=Location
6	say speech: assert	past	the made face not said here		to the third	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to third=Experiencer clause=Topic
7	know	present · do-support	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
8	be	shall	your wineglass			vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=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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