More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 87
And when I'm killed, the dragon will go away for a bit, then you must come down the tree and skin me, and take out my bladder and blow it out, and it will kill everything you hit with it.
Who acts: dragon, you, tree · What happens: kill, go away, come down, take out, blow out, hit · To what, where: I, tree, bladder, everything
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 (dragon, you, tree), 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 | _ | 5 killed | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 killed | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 killed | aux:pass |
| 5 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 go | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 killed | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dragon | det |
| 8 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 go | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 go | aux |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 go | advmod |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 bit | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 bit | det |
| 14 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 go | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 come | punct |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 come | advmod |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 come | nsubj |
| 18 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 come | aux |
| 19 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 go | conj |
| 20 | down | down | ADV | _ | 19 come | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 tree | det |
| 22 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 come | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 skin | cc |
| 24 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 tree | conj |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 skin | nmod:unmarked |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 take | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 take | cc |
| 28 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 go | parataxis |
| 29 | out | out | ADP | _ | 28 take | compound:prt |
| 30 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 bladder | nmod:poss |
| 31 | bladder | bladder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 take | obj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 blow | cc |
| 33 | blow | blow | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 28 take | conj |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 blow | obj |
| 35 | out | out | ADP | _ | 33 blow | compound:prt |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 kill | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 kill | cc |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 kill | nsubj |
| 39 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 kill | aux |
| 40 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 go | advcl |
| 41 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 40 kill | obj |
| 42 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 43 hit | nsubj |
| 43 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 everything | acl:relcl |
| 44 | with | with | ADP | _ | 45 it | case |
| 45 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 hit | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | present · passive | I | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go away | future | the dragon | for a bit; away property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for bit=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | come down | must | you | the tree and skin me | then | down property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tree=Theme | ||
| 4 | take out | infinitive | my bladder | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bladder=Theme | |||||
| 5 | blow out | infinitive | tree | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||||
| 6 | kill | future | tree | everything | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme | ||||
| 7 | hit | present | you | with tree | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent with it=Instrument |
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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