The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 163
Very soon the dragon stole softly into the room, and gave a tremendous blow on the spot where Stan’s head should have been.
Who acts: dragon · What happens: steal, give · To what, where: room, tremendous blow, spot
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. 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 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 stole | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 dragon | det |
| 4 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stole | nsubj |
| 5 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 5 stole | advmod |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 room | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 room | det |
| 9 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stole | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 gave | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 gave | cc |
| 12 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stole | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 blow | det |
| 14 | tremendous | tremendous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 blow | amod |
| 15 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gave | obj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 spot | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 spot | det |
| 18 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gave | obl |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 25 been | advmod |
| 20 | Stan | Stan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 head | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 Stan | case |
| 22 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 been | nsubj |
| 23 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 been | aux |
| 24 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 been | aux |
| 25 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 spot | acl:relcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stole | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal | past | the dragon | the room | softly, soon property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | give | past | the dragon not said here | a tremendous blow | the spot | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent blow=Theme on spot=Asset |
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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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