More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 105

But when it came up to them, the lad just hit it on the head with the bladder and the dragon fell down dead, but before it died, it bit off the little boy's forefinger.

Who acts: good, lad, dragon · What happens: come up, hit, fall down, die, bite off · To what, where: miles, good, head, forefinger

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 (good, lad, dragon), 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	_	12 hit	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 came	advmod
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 hit	advcl
5	up	up	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 lad	det
10	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hit	nsubj
11	just	just	ADV	_	12 hit	advmod
12	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 hit	obj
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 head	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 head	det
16	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hit	obl
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 bladder	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 bladder	det
19	bladder	bladder	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hit	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 fell	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 dragon	det
22	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 fell	nsubj
23	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 hit	conj
24	down	down	ADV	_	23 fell	advmod
25	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 fell	xcomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 bit	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 bit	cc
28	before	before	SCONJ	_	30 died	mark
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 died	nsubj
30	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 bit	advcl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 died	punct
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 bit	nsubj
33	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 hit	conj
34	off	off	ADP	_	39 forefinger	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 boy	det
36	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 boy	amod
37	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 forefinger	nmod:poss
38	's	's	PART	_	37 boy	case
39	forefinger	forefinger	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 bit	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 hit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come up	past	good		miles = mile			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to they=Initial_Location
2	hit	past	the lad	good		the head	with the bladder	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with bladder=Instrument
3	fall down	past	the dragon				dead, down property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	die	past	good					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	bite off	past	good	the little boy's forefinger				vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forefinger=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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