The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon and His Grandmother, sentence 67
Then the Dragon flew away with a loud shriek, and had no more power over them.
Who acts: Dragon · What happens: fly away, have · To what, where: more power
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 flew | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Dragon | det |
| 3 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 flew | nsubj |
| 4 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 flew | advmod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 shriek | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 shriek | det |
| 8 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 shriek | amod |
| 9 | shriek | shriek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flew | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 had | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 had | cc |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 flew | conj |
| 13 | no | no | ADV | _ | 14 more | advmod |
| 14 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 power | amod |
| 15 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | obj |
| 16 | over | over | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 had | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly away | past | the Dragon | then | with a loud shriek; away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | have | past | the Dragon not said here | more power | over horses = horse | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient |
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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