The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 54
The dragon on the bridge was more fearful and his three heads more terrible than before, and the young hero rode away still faster than his brother had done.
Who acts: dragon, three heads, young hero, brother · What happens: be, ride away, do
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, three heads, young hero, brother), 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 | 8 fearful | nsubj |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 bridge | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bridge | det |
| 5 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dragon | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 fearful | cop |
| 7 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 fearful | advmod |
| 8 | fearful | fearful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 terrible | cc |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 heads | nmod:poss |
| 11 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 heads | nummod |
| 12 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 terrible | nsubj |
| 13 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 terrible | advmod |
| 14 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 fearful | conj |
| 15 | than | than | ADP | _ | 16 before | case |
| 16 | before | before | ADV | _ | 14 terrible | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 rode | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 rode | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 hero | det |
| 20 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 hero | amod |
| 21 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 rode | nsubj |
| 22 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 fearful | conj |
| 23 | away | away | ADV | _ | 22 rode | advmod |
| 24 | still | still | ADV | _ | 25 faster | advmod |
| 25 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 rode | advmod |
| 26 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 30 done | mark |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 brother | nmod:poss |
| 28 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 done | nsubj |
| 29 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 done | aux |
| 30 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 faster | advcl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 fearful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the dragon on the bridge | fearful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | dragon's three heads | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | ride away | past | the young hero | away, fast property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | do | past · perfect | dragon's brother | vn act-114-1 «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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