The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 72
When the dragon saw that, he thought it was time he made the best of his way home again, but Stan stood in his path.
Who acts: dragon, Stan · What happens: see, think, be, make, stand · To what, where: that, time, best, path · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dragon | det |
| 3 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 thought | advcl |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 saw | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 thought | nsubj |
| 8 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 time | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 time | cop |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 thought | ccomp |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 made | nsubj |
| 13 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 time | acl:relcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 best | det |
| 15 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 made | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 way | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 way | nmod:poss |
| 18 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 best | obl |
| 19 | home | home | ADV | _ | 20 again | advmod |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 18 way | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 stood | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 stood | cc |
| 23 | Stan | Stan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 stood | nsubj |
| 24 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 thought | conj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 path | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 path | nmod:poss |
| 27 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 stood | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the dragon | that | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | Stan | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | dragon | time | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | make | past | Stan | the best | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Product | ||||
| 5 | stand | past | Stan | Stan's path | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in path=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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