The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 58
The dragon on the bridge was yet more dreadful than the one Florea and Costan had seen, for this one had seven heads instead of only three.
Who acts: dragon, one · What happens: be, see, have · To what, where: Florea, seven heads
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, one), 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 | 9 dreadful | 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 | 9 dreadful | cop |
| 7 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 8 more | advmod |
| 8 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 dreadful | advmod |
| 9 | dreadful | dreadful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | than | than | ADP | _ | 12 one | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 one | det |
| 12 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dreadful | obl |
| 13 | Florea | Florea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Costan | cc |
| 15 | Costan | Costan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Florea | conj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 seen | aux |
| 17 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 one | acl:relcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 had | punct |
| 19 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 22 had | mark |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 one | det |
| 21 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 had | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 dreadful | parataxis |
| 23 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 heads | nummod |
| 24 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 had | obj |
| 25 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 28 three | case |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 instead | fixed |
| 27 | only | only | ADV | _ | 28 three | advmod |
| 28 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 had | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 dreadful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the dragon on the bridge | than the one; dreadful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | past · perfect · passive | the one not said here | Florea and Costan | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | have | past | this one | seven heads | instead three | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient |
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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