The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 47
The dragon heaved a sigh and vanished without leaving a trace behind him.
Who acts: dragon · What happens: heave, vanish, leave · To what, where: sigh, trace
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 (dragon), 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 heaved | nsubj |
| 3 | heaved | heave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 sigh | det |
| 5 | sigh | sigh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heaved | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 vanished | cc |
| 7 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 heaved | conj |
| 8 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 9 leaving | mark |
| 9 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 vanished | advcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 trace | det |
| 11 | trace | trace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 leaving | obj |
| 12 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 leaving | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heaved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | heave | past | the dragon | a sigh | vn push-12 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sigh=Theme | ||||
| 2 | vanish | past | the dragon not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | leave | gerund | the dragon not said here | a trace | behind dragon | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent trace=Theme behind he=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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