The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 115
The fight lasted an hour and the dragon pressed her hard.
Who acts: fight, dragon · What happens: last, press · To what, where: hard
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 (fight, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 fight | det |
| 2 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lasted | nsubj |
| 3 | lasted | last | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 hour | det |
| 5 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lasted | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 pressed | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dragon | det |
| 8 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pressed | nsubj |
| 9 | pressed | press | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lasted | conj |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 hard | nmod:poss |
| 11 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 pressed | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lasted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | last | past | the fight | hour | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | press | past | the dragon | dragon's hard | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hard=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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