The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 70
Then the prince rushed forward with his sword and killed the dragon, and the beasts tore the body in pieces.
Who acts: prince, beasts · What happens: rush, kill, tore · To what, where: dragon, body, pieces
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 (prince, beasts), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 rushed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rushed | nsubj |
| 4 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 4 rushed | advmod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 sword | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 sword | nmod:poss |
| 8 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rushed | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 killed | cc |
| 10 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rushed | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 dragon | det |
| 12 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 killed | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 tore | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 tore | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 beasts | det |
| 16 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 tore | nsubj |
| 17 | tore | tore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rushed | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 body | det |
| 19 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tore | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 pieces | case |
| 21 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 tore | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush | past | the prince | then | with shore's sword; forward property | vn rush-53.2 «NP V PP.eventuality»: agent=Agent with sword=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | kill | past | the prince not said here | the dragon | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dragon=Theme | ||||
| 3 | tore | past | the beasts | the body | pieces | tree rules |
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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