The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 69
So the dragon ate till it was past mid-day, and when he could eat no more he mounted his horse and set out after the fugitives.
Who acts: dragon, supper · What happens: eat, be, mount, set out · To what, where: horse
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, supper), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 ate | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dragon | det |
| 3 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ate | nsubj |
| 4 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | till | till | ADP | _ | 9 mid-day | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 mid-day | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 mid-day | cop |
| 8 | past | past | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 mid-day | amod |
| 9 | mid-day | mid-day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ate | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 mounted | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 mounted | cc |
| 12 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 15 eat | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 eat | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 eat | aux |
| 15 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 mounted | advcl |
| 16 | no | no | ADV | _ | 17 more | advmod |
| 17 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 eat | advmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 mounted | nsubj |
| 19 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ate | conj |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 horse | nmod:poss |
| 21 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 mounted | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 set | cc |
| 23 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 mounted | conj |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 set | compound:prt |
| 25 | after | after | ADP | _ | 27 fugitives | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 fugitives | det |
| 27 | fugitives | fugitive | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 set | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past | the dragon | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | supper | till past mid-day | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | eat | could | dragon | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | mount | past | dragon | dragon's horse | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | ||||
| 5 | set out | past | dragon not said here | after the fugitives | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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