More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 106
Then the lad cut out the dragon's tongue and said to the king's daughter: "I've done all I can, I must leave you."
Who acts: I · What happens: cut out, say, do, leave · To what, where: lad, 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 (I), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 cut | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lad | det |
| 3 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cut | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 leave | advcl |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 cut | compound:prt |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 dragon | det |
| 7 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tongue | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 dragon | case |
| 9 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cut | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 cut | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 daughter | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 king | det |
| 14 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 king | case |
| 16 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obl |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 done | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 done | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 done | nsubj |
| 20 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 done | aux |
| 21 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 said | ccomp |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 can | det |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 can | nsubj |
| 24 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 done | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 cut | punct |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 leave | nsubj |
| 27 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 leave | aux |
| 28 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 leave | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 leave | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 leave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut out | participle · passive | the lad | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the king's daughter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to daughter=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | do in a quote | present · perfect | I | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | leave in a quote | must | I | the king's daughter = daughter | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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: «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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