The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 200
At this dreadful sight the dragon waited no longer: he flung down his sacks where he stood and took flight as fast as he could, so terrified at the fate that awaited him that from that day he has never dared to show his face in the world again.
Who acts: dragon, Father, fate · What happens: wait, fling down, stand, take, await, not dare · To what, where: dreadful sight, sacks, flight, Father, face
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, Father, fate), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 sight | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 sight | det |
| 3 | dreadful | dreadful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sight | amod |
| 4 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 waited | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 dragon | det |
| 6 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 waited | nsubj |
| 7 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | no | no | ADV | _ | 9 longer | advmod |
| 9 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 waited | advmod |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 flung | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 flung | nsubj |
| 12 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 waited | conj |
| 13 | down | down | ADP | _ | 12 flung | compound:prt |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 sacks | nmod:poss |
| 15 | sacks | sack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 flung | obj |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 stood | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 stood | nsubj |
| 18 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 flung | advcl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 took | cc |
| 20 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 flung | conj |
| 21 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 took | obj |
| 22 | as | as | ADV | _ | 23 fast | advmod |
| 23 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 took | advmod |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 could | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 could | nsubj |
| 26 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 fast | advcl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 terrified | punct |
| 28 | so | so | ADV | _ | 29 terrified | advmod |
| 29 | terrified | terrified | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 waited | conj |
| 30 | at | at | ADP | _ | 32 fate | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 fate | det |
| 32 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 terrified | obl |
| 33 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 awaited | nsubj |
| 34 | awaited | await | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 fate | acl:relcl |
| 35 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 awaited | obj |
| 36 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 terrified | nsubj |
| 37 | from | from | ADP | _ | 39 day | case |
| 38 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 39 day | det |
| 39 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 waited | obl |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 dared | nsubj |
| 41 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 dared | aux |
| 42 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 43 dared | advmod |
| 43 | dared | dare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 waited | conj |
| 44 | to | to | PART | _ | 45 show | mark |
| 45 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 43 dared | xcomp |
| 46 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 face | nmod:poss |
| 47 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 show | obj |
| 48 | in | in | ADP | _ | 50 world | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 world | det |
| 50 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 show | obl |
| 51 | again | again | ADV | _ | 45 show | advmod |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 waited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past | the dragon | this dreadful sight | day | long property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at sight=Location | ||
| 2 | fling down | past | Father | Father's sacks | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sack=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stand | past | Father | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | take | past | Father not said here | flight | fast property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flight=Theme | |||
| 5 | await | past | the fate | Father | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | not dare | present · perfect | Father | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | not show | to-infinitive | Father not said here | Father's face | again | in the world | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent face=Patient in world=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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