The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 69
The dragon picked up his stone with one hand, and squeezed it till it fell into powder, but no buttermilk flowed from it.
Who acts: dragon, stone, buttermilk · What happens: pick up, squeeze, fall, flow · To what, where: stone, powder
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, stone, buttermilk), 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 picked | nsubj |
| 3 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 picked | compound:prt |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 stone | nmod:poss |
| 6 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 picked | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 hand | case |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 hand | nummod |
| 9 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 picked | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 squeezed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 squeezed | cc |
| 12 | squeezed | squeeze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 picked | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 squeezed | obj |
| 14 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 16 fell | mark |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 fell | nsubj |
| 16 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 squeezed | advcl |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 powder | case |
| 18 | powder | powder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fell | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 flowed | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 flowed | cc |
| 21 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 22 buttermilk | det |
| 22 | buttermilk | buttermilk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 flowed | nsubj |
| 23 | flowed | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 picked | conj |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 it | case |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 flowed | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 picked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick up | past | the dragon | Stan's stone | with one hand | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Topic | |||
| 2 | squeeze | past | the dragon not said here | stone | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fall | past | stone | into powder result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into powder=Result | ||||
| 4 | flow | past | no buttermilk | stone | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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