The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 91

The dragon picked it up as if it had been a feather, and, after whirling it round his head, flung it lightly three miles away, telling Stan to beat that if he could.

Who acts: dragon, club · What happens: pick up, be, whirl, fling, tell, beat · To what, where: club, head, 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 (dragon, club), 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	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 picked	obj
5	up	up	ADP	_	3 picked	compound:prt
6	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	12 feather	case
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 as	fixed
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 feather	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 feather	aux
10	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 feather	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 feather	det
12	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 picked	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 flung	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 flung	cc
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 and	punct
16	after	after	SCONJ	_	17 whirling	mark
17	whirling	whirl	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 flung	advcl
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 whirling	obj
19	round	round	ADP	_	21 head	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 head	nmod:poss
21	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 whirling	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 whirling	punct
23	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 picked	conj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 flung	obj
25	lightly	lightly	ADV	_	23 flung	advmod
26	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 miles	nummod
27	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 away	obl:unmarked
28	away	away	ADV	_	23 flung	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 telling	punct
30	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 flung	advcl
31	Stan	Stan	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 telling	iobj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 beat	mark
33	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 telling	xcomp
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 could	mark
35	if	if	SCONJ	_	37 could	mark
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 could	nsubj
37	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 beat	advcl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 picked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	pick up	past	the dragon	club				vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	is	past · perfect	club				as a feather	tree rules
3	whirl	gerund		club		Stan's head		vn coil-9.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme round head=Destination
4	fling	past	the dragon not said here	club			away, lightly property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	tell speech: assert	gerund	the dragon not said here		Stan			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent stan=Recipient clause=Topic
6	beat not said to happen	to-infinitive	the dragon not said here					vn sound_emission-43.2 «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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