The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 154
But the dragon made no reply to the horse’s words, but sprang on his back and set off in chase of the fugitives.
Who acts: dragon, horse · What happens: make, spring, set off, word, chase · To what, where: reply, back, chase, fugitives
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dragon, horse), 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 | _ | 4 made | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dragon | det |
| 3 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | nsubj |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 reply | det |
| 6 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 words | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 horse | det |
| 9 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 words | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 horse | case |
| 11 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 made | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sprang | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 sprang | cc |
| 14 | sprang | spring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 made | advcl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 back | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 back | nmod:poss |
| 17 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sprang | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 set | cc |
| 19 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | conj |
| 20 | off | off | ADP | _ | 19 set | compound:prt |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 chase | case |
| 22 | chase | chase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 set | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 fugitives | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 fugitives | det |
| 25 | fugitives | fugitive | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 chase | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the dragon | no reply | to the horse's words | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reply=Product | |||
| 2 | spring | gerund | the dragon not said here | dragon's back | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on back=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | set off | past | the dragon not said here | chase of the fugitives | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | word | the horse | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | chase | the fugitives | nom chase «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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