The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 112

This time it was neither a wolf nor a lion that was waiting for her at the end of the third day’s journey, but a dragon with twelve heads, and a golden bridge behind it.

Who acts: time, lion, third day · What happens: be, wait, journey · To what, where: wolf, end

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, 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 (time, lion, third day), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 time	det
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wolf	nsubj
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 wolf	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 wolf	cop
5	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	7 wolf	cc:preconj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 wolf	det
7	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	10 lion	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 lion	det
10	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wolf	conj
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 waiting	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 waiting	aux
13	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 lion	acl:relcl
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 her	case
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 waiting	obl
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 end	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 end	det
18	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 waiting	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	24 journey	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 day	det
21	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	22 day	amod
22	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 journey	nmod:poss
23	’s	's	PART	_	22 day	case
24	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 end	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 dragon	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 dragon	cc
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 dragon	det
28	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wolf	conj
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 heads	case
30	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 heads	nummod
31	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 dragon	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 bridge	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 bridge	cc
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 bridge	det
35	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 bridge	amod
36	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wolf	conj
37	behind	behind	ADP	_	38 it	case
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 bridge	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 wolf	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	this time	a wolf nor a lion but a dragon with twelve heads and a golden bridge behind battle			tree rules
2	wait	past · progressive	a lion		at the end of the third day's journey	for lion	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at end=Location
3	journey		the third day				nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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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