The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 164
Stan groaned loudly from under the bed, and the dragon went away as softly as he had come.
Who acts: Stan, dragon · What happens: groan, go away, come · To what, where: bed
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 (Stan, 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 | Stan | Stan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 groaned | nsubj |
| 2 | groaned | groan | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 2 groaned | advmod |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 bed | case |
| 5 | under | under | ADP | _ | 7 bed | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bed | det |
| 7 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 groaned | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 went | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 dragon | det |
| 11 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | nsubj |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 groaned | conj |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 went | advmod |
| 14 | as | as | ADV | _ | 15 softly | advmod |
| 15 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 12 went | advmod |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 come | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 come | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 come | aux |
| 19 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 went | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 groaned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | groan | past | Stan | the bed | loudly property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | go away | past | the dragon | away, softly property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come | past · perfect | Stan | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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