The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 62
She is to be handed over to a dreadful nine-headed dragon.’
What happens: hand over · To what, where: wolf, dreadful headed dragon
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 handed | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 handed | aux:pass |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 handed | mark |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 handed | aux:pass |
| 5 | handed | hand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 5 handed | compound:prt |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 dragon | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 dragon | det |
| 9 | dreadful | dreadful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 dragon | amod |
| 10 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 headed | nummod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 nine | punct |
| 12 | headed | headed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 dragon | amod |
| 13 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 handed | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 handed | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 handed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hand over | present · passive | wolf | a dreadful headed dragon | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to dragon=Destination |
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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