The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 198
The dragon let fall the sacks from terror, and then picked them up again.
Who acts: dragon · What happens: let, fall, pick up · To what, where: sacks, terror
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 dragon | det |
| 2 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 let | nsubj |
| 3 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 let | xcomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sacks | det |
| 6 | sacks | sack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fall | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 terror | case |
| 8 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fall | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 picked | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 picked | cc |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 picked | advmod |
| 12 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 let | conj |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 picked | obj |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 picked | compound:prt |
| 15 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 picked | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | past | the dragon | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | fall | infinitive | the dragon not said here | the sacks | terror | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient sack=Extent from terror=Initial_State | |||
| 3 | pick up | past | the dragon not said here | sacks = sack | then; again | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic |
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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