The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 116
But in the end, by a well-directed side blow, she cut off one of the heads, and with a roar that seemed to rend the heavens in two, the dragon fell back on the ground, and rose as a man before her.
Who acts: fight, roar, dragon · What happens: direct, cut off, seem, rend, fall back, rise · To what, where: one, end, heavens, two, ground
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, roar, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 cut | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 end | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 end | det |
| 4 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cut | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 blow | punct |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 blow | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 blow | det |
| 8 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 directed | advmod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 well | punct |
| 10 | directed | direct | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 blow | amod |
| 11 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 blow | compound |
| 12 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 end | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 end | punct |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 cut | nsubj |
| 15 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | off | off | ADP | _ | 15 cut | compound:prt |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 cut | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 heads | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 heads | det |
| 20 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 one | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 fell | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 fell | cc |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 roar | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 roar | det |
| 25 | roar | roar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 fell | obl |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 seemed | nsubj |
| 27 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 roar | acl:relcl |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 rend | mark |
| 29 | rend | rend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 seemed | xcomp |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 heavens | det |
| 31 | heavens | heaven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 rend | obj |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 two | case |
| 33 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 rend | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 roar | punct |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 dragon | det |
| 36 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 fell | nsubj |
| 37 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 cut | conj |
| 38 | back | back | ADV | _ | 37 fell | advmod |
| 39 | on | on | ADP | _ | 41 ground | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 ground | det |
| 41 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 fell | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 rose | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 rose | cc |
| 44 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 cut | conj |
| 45 | as | as | ADP | _ | 47 man | case |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 man | det |
| 47 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 rose | obl |
| 48 | before | before | ADP | _ | 49 her | case |
| 49 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 rose | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | direct | participle | well property | vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | cut off | past | fight | one of the heads | in the end and a directed side blow | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector one=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | seem | past | a roar | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | rend | to-infinitive | a roar not said here | the heavens | two | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heaven=Patient | |||
| 5 | fall back | past | the dragon | the ground | with a roar | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on ground=Location | |||
| 6 | rise | past | fight not said here | before dragon | as a man | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before she=Location |
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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