The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 98

‘Get out of the way!’ he said when he had done, but the dragon’s heads only breathed forth more flames and smoke.

Who acts: Petru, heads · What happens: get out, say, do, breathe · To what, where: way, more flames · Speech: someone speaks here

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, heads), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Get	punct
2	Get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
3	out	out	ADP	_	6 way	case
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 way	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 way	det
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Get	obl
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Get	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Get	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 done	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 done	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 done	aux
14	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 said	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 breathed	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 breathed	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 dragon	det
18	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 heads	nmod:poss
19	’s	's	PART	_	18 dragon	case
20	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 breathed	nsubj
21	only	only	ADV	_	22 breathed	advmod
22	breathed	breathe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	conj
23	forth	forth	ADV	_	22 breathed	advmod
24	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 flames	amod
25	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 breathed	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 smoke	cc
27	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 flames	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get out	infinitive		the way		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Petru			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do	past · perfect	Petru			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	breathe	past	the dragon's heads	more flames and smoke	forth property	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «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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