The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 82

When the old mother found that her son had arrived empty-handed she grew very angry, and fire and flame darted from her nostrils, but before she could speak the dragon turned to Stan.

Who acts: old mother, son, mother, fire · What happens: find, arrive, hand, grow, dart, speak · To what, where: nostrils, dragon, Stan · 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 (old mother, son, mother, fire), 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	SCONJ	_	5 found	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mother	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mother	amod
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 found	nsubj
5	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 grew	advcl
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 arrived	mark
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 son	nmod:poss
8	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 arrived	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 arrived	aux
10	arrived	arrive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 found	ccomp
11	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 handed	amod
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 empty	punct
13	handed	hand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 arrived	conj
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 grew	nsubj
15	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 angry	advmod
17	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 grew	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 darted	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 darted	cc
20	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 darted	nsubj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 flame	cc
22	flame	flame	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fire	conj
23	darted	dart	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 grew	conj
24	from	from	ADP	_	26 nostrils	case
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 nostrils	nmod:poss
26	nostrils	nostril	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 darted	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 turned	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 turned	cc
29	before	before	SCONJ	_	32 speak	mark
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 speak	nsubj
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 speak	aux
32	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 turned	advcl
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 dragon	det
34	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 speak	obj
35	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 grew	conj
36	to	to	ADP	_	37 Stan	case
37	Stan	Stan	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 turned	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	past	the old mother					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	arrive	past · perfect	mother's son					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hand	participle	mother's son not said here					vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	grow	past	mother				angry property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	dart	past	fire and flame			mother's nostrils		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from nostril=Trajectory
6	speak speech: other	could	mother	the dragon				tree rules
7	turn	past	mother not said here		Stan			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to stan=Result

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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