The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 95
On the bridge stood a dragon, but not the same one as he had tried to fight with, for this dragon had twelve heads, each more hideous and shooting forth more terrible flames than the other.
Who acts: Petru, dragon · What happens: stand, try, fight, have, shoot · To what, where: dragon, bridge, twelve heads, terrible flames
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 (Petru, 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 bridge | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bridge | det |
| 3 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | obl |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 dragon | det |
| 6 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 one | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 one | cc |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 one | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 one | det |
| 11 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 one | amod |
| 12 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | parataxis |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 tried | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 tried | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 tried | aux |
| 16 | tried | try | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 one | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 fight | mark |
| 18 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 tried | xcomp |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 fight | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 had | punct |
| 21 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 24 had | mark |
| 22 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 dragon | det |
| 23 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 had | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stood | conj |
| 25 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 heads | nummod |
| 26 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 had | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 hideous | punct |
| 28 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 hideous | nsubj |
| 29 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 30 hideous | advmod |
| 30 | hideous | hideous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stood | parataxis |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 shooting | cc |
| 32 | shooting | shoot | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 hideous | conj |
| 33 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 34 more | advmod |
| 34 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 35 terrible | advmod |
| 35 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 flames | amod |
| 36 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 shooting | obj |
| 37 | than | than | ADP | _ | 39 other | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 other | det |
| 39 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 shooting | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | a dragon | the bridge | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dragon=Theme on bridge=Destination | ||||
| 2 | try | past · perfect | Petru | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | fight not said to happen | to-infinitive | Petru not said here | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | have | past | this dragon | twelve heads | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | ||||
| 5 | shoot | gerund | terrible flames | than the other | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flame=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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