More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 88

So when the fiery dragon comes back, you hit it with my bladder and cut its tongue out."

Who acts: fiery dragon, you · What happens: come back, hit, cut out · To what, where: dragon, tongue

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 (fiery dragon, 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	_	10 hit	advmod
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	6 comes	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dragon	det
4	fiery	fiery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dragon	amod
5	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 comes	nsubj
6	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 hit	advcl
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 comes	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 comes	punct
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 hit	nsubj
10	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 hit	obj
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 bladder	case
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 bladder	nmod:poss
14	bladder	bladder	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hit	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 cut	cc
16	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 hit	conj
17	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 tongue	nmod:poss
18	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cut	obj
19	out	out	ADP	_	16 cut	compound:prt
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 hit	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 hit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come back	present	the fiery dragon			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hit	present	you	dragon	with my bladder	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with bladder=Instrument
3	cut out	past	you not said here	dragon's tongue		vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector tongue=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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