The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 44
SUCH a dragon!--a dragon with three heads and three horrible faces, all with their mouths wide open, one jaw reaching to heaven and the other to earth.
Who acts: one jaw · What happens: reach
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one jaw), 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 | SUCH | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 dragon | det:predet |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 dragon | det |
| 3 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 dragon | punct |
| 5 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 7 dragon | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 dragon | det |
| 7 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dragon | conj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 heads | case |
| 9 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 heads | nummod |
| 10 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 dragon | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 faces | cc |
| 12 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 faces | nummod |
| 13 | horrible | horrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 faces | amod |
| 14 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 heads | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 mouths | punct |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 mouths | det |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 mouths | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 mouths | nmod:poss |
| 19 | mouths | mouth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 dragon | conj |
| 20 | wide | wide | ADV | _ | 21 open | advmod |
| 21 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 mouths | amod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 jaw | punct |
| 23 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 jaw | nummod |
| 24 | jaw | jaw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dragon | conj |
| 25 | reaching | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 jaw | acl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 heaven | case |
| 27 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 reaching | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 other | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 other | det |
| 30 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 dragon | conj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 earth | case |
| 32 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 other | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dragon | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | gerund | one jaw not said here | to heaven | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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