The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 68
As it came nearer, he knew what it was, for skimming swiftly along the waters came a monster dragon with nine heads.
Who acts: movement, shore, waters · What happens: come, know, skim · To what, where: monster dragon · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (movement, shore, waters), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 came | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 knew | advcl |
| 4 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 came | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 knew | nsubj |
| 7 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 skimming | nsubj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 skimming | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 skimming | aux |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 skimming | punct |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 skimming | mark |
| 13 | skimming | skim | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 knew | ccomp |
| 14 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 13 skimming | advmod |
| 15 | along | along | ADP | _ | 18 came | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 waters | det |
| 17 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 came | nsubj |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 skimming | advcl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 dragon | det |
| 20 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 dragon | compound |
| 21 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | obj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 heads | case |
| 23 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 heads | nummod |
| 24 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 dragon | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | movement | near property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | know | past | shore | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | skim | past · progressive | swiftly property | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | come | past | the waters | a monster dragon | with nine heads | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dragon=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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