The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 67
The dragon did as Stan bade him, and brought back a stone out of the brook.
Who acts: dragon, Stan · What happens: do, bade, bring back · To what, where: man, stone, brook
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, Stan), 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 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 bade | mark |
| 5 | Stan | Stan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 bade | nsubj |
| 6 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | advcl |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 bade | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 brought | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 brought | cc |
| 10 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | conj |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 brought | advmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 stone | det |
| 13 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 brought | obj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 brook | case |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 brook | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 brook | det |
| 17 | brook | brook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 brought | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the dragon | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | bade | past | Stan | man | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bring back | past | the dragon not said here | a stone | the brook | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent stone=Theme out brook=Initial_Location |
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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