More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 101

So he went up and untied her hair, but she said: "My time has come for the dragon to destroy me; go away, you can do no good."

Who acts: lad, daughter, time, you · What happens: go up, untie, say, come, destroy, go away · To what, where: hair, daughter, good · 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, time, you), 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	_	3 went	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 went	compound:prt
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 untied	cc
6	untied	untie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 hair	nmod:poss
8	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 untied	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 come	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 come	punct
15	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 time	nmod:poss
16	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 come	nsubj
17	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 come	aux
18	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 said	ccomp
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 dragon	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 dragon	det
21	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 come	obl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 destroy	mark
23	destroy	destroy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 come	advcl
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 destroy	obj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 go	punct
26	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 said	ccomp
27	away	away	ADV	_	26 go	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 do	punct
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 do	nsubj
30	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 do	aux
31	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 go	conj
32	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	33 good	det
33	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 do	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go up	past	lad			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	untie	past	lad not said here	daughter's hair		vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient
3	say speech: assert	past	daughter			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	come in a quote	present · perfect	My time		for the dragon	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	destroy in a quote	to-infinitive	My time not said here	daughter		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
6	go away in a quote	infinitive			away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	do in a quote	can	you	no good		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality

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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