More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 117

Well, still the fine gentlemen came, bringing up their dragons' tongues that weren't dragons' tongues, and at last the little boy came up, dressed a little better.

Who acts: fine gentlemen, tongues, last · What happens: come, bring up, not be, come up, dress · To what, where: tongues

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 (fine gentlemen, tongues, last), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	7 came	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	still	still	ADV	_	7 came	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 gentlemen	det
5	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 gentlemen	amod
6	gentlemen	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bringing	punct
9	bringing	bring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 came	advcl
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 bringing	compound:prt
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 dragons	nmod:poss
12	dragons	dragon	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 tongues	nmod:poss
13	'	's	PART	_	12 dragons	case
14	tongues	tongue	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 bringing	obj
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 tongues	nsubj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 tongues	cop
17	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 tongues	advmod
18	dragons	dragon	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 tongues	nmod:poss
19	'	's	PART	_	18 dragons	case
20	tongues	tongue	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 tongues	acl:relcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 came	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 came	cc
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 last	case
24	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 came	nsubj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 boy	det
26	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 boy	amod
27	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 last	nsubj
28	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 came	conj
29	up	up	ADV	_	28 came	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 dressed	punct
31	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 came	advcl
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 little	det
33	little	little	ADV	Degree=Pos	34 better	advmod
34	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	31 dressed	advcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	come	past	the fine gentlemen		still	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bring up	gerund	the fine gentlemen not said here	signs's dragons's tongues		vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tongue=Patient
3	not is a	past	signs's dragons's tongues	dragons's tongues		tree rules
4	come up	past	last			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	dress	participle	last not said here			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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