The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 160
And the dragon’s horse plunged and reared, and the dragon fell on a rock, which broke him in pieces.
Who acts: horse, dragon, rock · What happens: plunge, rear, fall, break · To what, where: rock, dragon, pieces
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 (horse, dragon, rock), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 plunged | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dragon | det |
| 3 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 horse | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 dragon | case |
| 5 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 plunged | nsubj |
| 6 | plunged | plunge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 reared | cc |
| 8 | reared | rear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 plunged | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fell | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 fell | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 dragon | det |
| 12 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fell | nsubj |
| 13 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 plunged | conj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 rock | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 rock | det |
| 16 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fell | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 broke | punct |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 broke | nsubj |
| 19 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 rock | acl:relcl |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 broke | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 pieces | case |
| 22 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 broke | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 plunged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plunge | past | the dragon's horse | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | rear | past | the dragon's horse not said here | vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | fall | past | the dragon | a rock | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on rock=Location | ||||
| 4 | break | past | a rock | dragon | pieces | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/7/160/