More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 100

And as he went on, what should he see but a king's daughter, staked down by the hair of her head, for she had been put there for the dragon to destroy her.

Who acts: lad, daughter · What happens: go on, see, stake down, put, destroy · To what, where: daughter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lad, daughter), 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	_	4 went	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	4 went	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 see	punct
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 see	obj
8	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 see	aux
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 see	nsubj
10	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 went	conj
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 staked	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 king	det
13	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 daughter	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 king	case
15	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 staked	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 staked	punct
17	staked	stake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 see	ccomp
18	down	down	ADP	_	17 staked	compound:prt
19	by	by	ADP	_	21 hair	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 hair	det
21	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 staked	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 head	case
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 head	nmod:poss
24	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hair	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 put	punct
26	for	for	SCONJ	_	30 put	mark
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 put	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 put	aux
29	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 put	aux:pass
30	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 staked	conj
31	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 put	advmod
32	for	for	ADP	_	34 dragon	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 dragon	det
34	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 put	obl
35	to	to	PART	_	36 destroy	mark
36	destroy	destroy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 put	advcl
37	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 destroy	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go on	past	lad				vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	should	lad				tree rules
3	stake down	participle	a king's daughter			by the hair of daughter's head	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	put	past · perfect · passive		daughter	there	for the dragon	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal
5	destroy	to-infinitive		daughter			vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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